The Power of Choice (And the Difference That Mindset Makes)

The right way isn’t always the easy way.
In fact, it rarely is.

Sometimes, the path forward reveals itself as a jagged cliff—unscalable, terrifying, impossible.

Other times, it’s a leap into the unknown, the moment where surrender becomes the only way to fly.
You either claw your way up… or open your arms and trust the wind.

Choice lives in both.

And yet, we’re taught to fear pain, to run from discomfort, to flinch from anything that breaks the illusion of ease. But what if pain, too, could be sacred?

What if pain was inevitable and suffering is optional?

it’s consent.
It’s connection.
It’s intention.

It’s the deep trust and negotiated vulnerability that turns pain into pleasure, and domination into devotion.

in life, the difference between being crushed by reality or rising in the face of it isn’t circumstance. It’s framing. How we decide to feel it.

When the world hurts you—and it will—it’s easy to collapse. To drown in pity. To forget the power that lives in you.

But I’ve learned, again and again, that I can choose.

And then… I remembered who I am.
I remembered the part that plays with pain.
The part that knows how to alchemize agony into beauty.

In that moment, everything changed.

A strangely sacred moment

That’s the difference.
Mindset.

We forget sometimes. We fall into the stories we’ve been told—that pain is punishment, that struggle is failure, that ease is the goal.

But there is joy in choosing. Even when the choice is hard. Especially when it is.

This is the philosophy I live by:and has becomes one of my most sacred teachers of all.