Today was my “namesday” - something I might care a little more about if I was still a practicing Greek Orthodox like my mom.
Today at work, I was lost in thought while taking inventory. That happens a lot. It’s easy to have half my brain on the count and half on another topic. The prophet Daniel, who is commemorated today (thus being my namesday since I’m named Danielle) is known for being thrown into a pit of hungry lions and being spared. The lions didn’t even eat him after all. Sometimes when I’ve heard this story in the past, they befriended him, but I can’t remember them being friends when I actually read the story in the Bible.
It’s similar to how I’ve come to realize the past few years what horrible advice I’ve been given my whole life. I went about my life, got to middle age, and realized that most of the advice I received was false and I have to relearn everything. It feels a lot like being thrown into a den of lions and not being eaten. All these things that were “supposed” to happen never did. In fact, they were never going to happen anyway.
Yeah, we're pretty much all raised on a total diet of BS. Becoming an adult with minds and lives of our own depends on deprogramming ourselves and learning what it is that is true for us.
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