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What a Waste of My Time

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“All my life I thought something was wrong with me… What a waste.” That single line, spoken at the very end of a life, has a way of stopping you cold. I read it in Tara Brach’s work on radical acceptance, and it immediately made me look at the places where I still treat my anxiety, doubt, and self-criticism like proof that I’m broken.

We talk about unworthiness as a trance: a low-grade background hum that can run for years until you barely notice it’s there. Like a fan in a quiet room, the noise becomes normal, and you start to believe that’s just what being alive feels like…

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