By the Ocean
Cloudy 72 Degrees
5:02 a.m.
I got a warm and fuzzy note from an angry elf who supposedly lives on an island not far from me. I sent him a compassionate response, but apparently, the email address he provided is fake.
Here’s what he wrote:
I’ve been following you for the past few weeks and can honestly say without a doubt that you have to be the most arrogant person I’ve ever had the displeasure of getting to know online.
Retired at 56 and I currently live in ******* [I don’t see a need to include that detail, but it’s apparently not too far from where I sit. Eek!].
I’ve made and kept millions doing the complete opposite of what you preach in your materials.
I am grateful for messages like this. First of all, for someone who is not exactly always sure he is human, this reminds me that I am.
Because the initial pain I feel from something like this is real. So I sit with that. And allow it to fill my body. And then I ask what the lesson is for me that I can learn from an interaction like this.
The lesson is something I will offer to you as well as to myself:
Always be yourself, no matter what anyone says. ESPECIALLY if an angry elf approaches you and projects their internal dysfunction onto you while you are walking on your path.
I don’t relish in any other human’s dysfunction. I just know it when I see it. And I can have compassion for people who are not in a good place.
If this is “arrogant” in some way, then I suppose that form of arrogance is a virtue.
Because it is what the world needs. Humans everywhere waking up and realizing they can be the best in the world at BEING THEMSELVES.
And to anyone who would block your path on the journey of being yourself?
Transform their B.S. into gold and keep on walking.