I have been playing this game on my phone for a while and I have gotten pretty far on it.
One day, I’m on this level that is pretty difficult, and I keep having to repeat it. Then I look down and see that since I have been playing this game, I’ve accumulated boosters, extra lives, basically things that can help with the harder levels.
And, because I’m me, I have convinced myself that I should be able to do this on my own. There was no rule that said that I couldn’t use them. It wasn’t like if I kept struggling, the win would mean more. Then it hit me. Your help is right there. It’s no need to keep playing the same level over and over when you have the tools to beat it. You don’t get extra credit for NOT using them. What are you trying to prove? Who are you trying to prove it to?
I heard something on a TV show one day that really stuck with me. “There is no glory in suffering.” Some of us act like it though. We praise endurance, pushing through, thugging it out. And for what? There is no prize for doing things the hardest way, no extra credit for exhaustion. Definitely no gold medal for refusing support.
I get it though. Somewhere along the way, we learned that ease means weakness and support means unearned.
You have been given these tools because you have earned them. They are a reward for what you have accomplished so far. They don’t erase the work you have done or the levels you have passed. Boosters acknowledge that sometimes things get hard, and everything isn’t meant to be done alone.
The help is there. All we have to do is tap into it .✨️✨️
