we’ve been sold a bill of goods.

We’ve been sold a bill of goods, by advertisers, by schools, by religion, and by society as a whole.

I’ve been reading a book, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years, by Donald Miller, and the author talks about Utopia, Eden on Earth, happily ever after. Basically, he says there is no such thing.

Nike tells us to buy these shoes and you will be awesome.

Apple says buy this phone and your life will be wonderful.

Lincoln tell you, buy this car and you will be as cool as matthew mcconaughey.

No, you won’t.

The movies end with the Knight on the white horse rescuing the princess and riding off into the sunset to live happily ever after…

What the movie doesn’t show you is three months later, and the armor has rusted, the laundry is dirty, and there isn’t enough money to buy hay for the horse.

But that’s ok.

The obstacles in your path are not barriers that will stop you. They are merely mountains to be climbed. Sure, it would be fun for a while but a life that was “perfect” would get boring. There would be no growth. There would be nothing to live for.

We were meant to grow.

Having the delusion of a perfect life even being possible is damaging. It makes you look at everything as being not enough. If you only had this house or that outfit, or that spouse, everything would be “perfect”. But what you have is enough.