It’s time to say the quiet part out loud

I’m a barber. I feel privileged enough to be able to have that very relationship with my clients. Open up wide. Best conversations hands-down. Vulnerability is true strength.

I totally agree. Bravery isn't the absence of fear. It's acting in spite of fear. Be who you are. Feel your feelings.❤

13:13 "budget Andrew Tate meets Mark Zuckerberg". Lmao, f-ing hilarious self own! Never considered it but now can't unsee it. Thanks for making yourself a little more vulnerable and real to us.

Perhaps, but most people aren't worthy of my vulnerability. Making yourself vulnerable to someone you know will take advantage of it isn't strength, it is stupidity.

I completely agree. As a child, I was brought up to show no extreme emotions for reasons I'll not go into - positive as well as negative. Consequently, I can control my anger and frustrations, no problem, but I genuinely struggle to know what joy is, how to experience it. I've never been 'allowed' to feel that. Ultimately, whatever emotions I feel it just appears as tears because I have no idea how to process any extreme emotions. This really hit me hard.

Your comment made me think of this amazing CS Lewis quote that I keep taped to the wall whenever I'm tempted to shut out the world, to avoid the heartbreak - "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” And just like you said, what good is life if you don't live it wildly? A pristine, unscratched, unaltered life is not what I want. I want 60 yr old me to have callused hands, a heart well used and days inundated with people and community who won't leave me alone in peace. But to get there, I have to be brave enough, to be vulnerable now.

Hello you beauties. Watch the full episode with Chris - https://youtu.be/2NjN6W8cnIg

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being" Carl Jung

"We're afraid of being sad in front of someone who shrugs." That one landed for me, bro.

Being close to death brings utter truth. Thank you.