Because it isn’t suck. It just is.
The thought and the phrase came to me after seeing a Gary Vaynerchuk excerpt on YouTube.
Life is life and stuff is stuff and sometimes you are doing what you want to do and sometimes you are doing what you don’t want to do.
It passes. The good stuff and the bad stuff and the indifferent stuff. The stuff you want to remember you’ll forget and the stuff you wish you could forget you’ll always remember.
Right now it’s always ok. Even when it’s suck.
Think of your own life, and the objectively suck things you have experienced. Where are they? Just memories. And the great thing is I can tell people and say “I went through this, so can you.”
Embrace the suck. Grin and bear it. Whatever metaphor you choose.
Even kidney stones. That was the most pain I have ever had in my life. What did I do? Waited out the week or so until I pissed them out. The pills barely affected the pain. I didn’t even have the awareness to say embrace the suck to myself. I just, y’know, lay there one breath at a time.
I don’t want that experience again, but maybe next time I will be able to lie there and be aware enough to say “embrace the suck” to myself. Or not. Whatever.