Leveraging that “Biden” stuttering post of the other day.

Stutterers know that lessons and knowledge come from places of painful emotions, darkness. Happiness can be so short lived. We don’t let people interfere with our happiness, because others’ energy is not ours. We feel a magic in all situations, good and bad, once we learn this basic lesson.

Some people can’t stand us for it. We may even be bitter, as we first learn these lessons. Then we become grateful for the malady, for it brings great wisdom that others will never appreciate.

We know, through painful experience, that people don’t grow in happiness. Happiness tends to breed complacency. The more pain, destruction, heartache and loss, the more evolution, the more magic we accumulate in our souls. We don’t actively seek out pain, but we bear it when it arrives with equanimity, because it is ultimately a boon. It bronzes us, armors us, fills our cracks with titanium. Our malady is armored, but our hearts remain open. We are unusually forgiving souls, giving people many chances to show empathy and compassion.

We also understand that all emotion is just emotion; separate from our own worthiness. It is not ‘us’. Hard emotions transform, but yield no mortal wounds.

And these deep knowings are a stutterer’s strength.