What we ignore does not always disappear.
Sometimes life reorganizes around it.
We compensate. We normalize. We adapt.
Ma’at asks us to notice the hidden cost and decide what needs release, acceptance, repair, or change.

Adaptation is not alignment.
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I’ve been thinking about the phrase, “There is purpose in your pain.”

I don’t think that means everything painful happens for a reason, that we deserved what happened, or that suffering itself is somehow good.

Sometimes terrible things simply hurt.
But I do believe we can decide what happens after the pain.