Okay
You're okay, I'm okay. We're all okay.
I enjoy reading or listening to people who have interesting thoughts and opinions.
The list includes Jordan Peterson. While listening to Dr. Peterson lately I was as usual, impressed by his passion for helping his fellow humans.
Dr. Peterson isn't a 'Christian', but he does believe in God. I don't know how he reconciles his beliefs, but he does have some good thoughts.
One of those thoughts is don't tell people they're 'okay'. Most people know they aren't okay. They are looking for answers. Say you're an eighteen to twenty year old, if you tell them they're okay it's like saying, you've arrived. This is as good as you get...
They don't need to hear that, they need to be challenged with the idea that they need to get out and work to be the best they CAN be, not to be told to go home and burn their house over them, that the game is over.
In other words take your good qualities and make yourself better; be the best you can be, not just 'okay'.
He also puts life into perspective. He says life is suffering. I'm paraphrasing slightly here, but if you aren't suffering now you probably have at some time, or will be in the future.
I don't know of anyone, even those who say they're living the dream, who wouldn't admit that at some time they've suffered. And if they don't admit to some suffering I would think either their memory or their understanding is flawed.
Suffering can bring us to the point where we realize something needs to change. Indeed, even as a child I realized my life was painful, and there had to be a better way to live.
When you're training for a race you can't be content to be okay, you need to be the best you can be.
"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest...", (2 Corinthians 13:5-7 KJV)
