John Moyer

Maybe something happened recently.
A moment that set you back.
An interaction gone sideways.
A plan that crashed when you thought it would glide.

Now you’re holding a cosmic cocktail:
one part anger,
one part frustration,
two parts hurt,
four parts hopelessness.

It’s a Long Island Iced Tea of Low Vibration.

You're allowed to feel that.
Finish the drink — it's on the house.
But you don’t have to order another.
Or go on a bender of negative emotion.

Moments like this do define us.
Some people retreat into “poor me.”
They camp out in victimhood,
pointing at everyone and everything else as the reason they’re stuck.

Others — they alchemize it.
They look at the moment,
not to relive it — but to learn from it.
To honor the part of them that tried.
That believed.
That expected the world to meet them halfway…
and got a brick wall and a laugh track instead.

But instead of spiraling,
they hand the pain a mirror.
Ask it what it’s here to reveal.
And use that as fuel.

Maybe that’s you.
Maybe today’s the day you stop asking “Why me?”
and start asking “What now?”

Not because it’s easy.
Or maybe it is — easier than you thought.
Either way, it happens because something in you is willing:
To rise.
To revise.
To respond with something new
— by becoming someone new.

Not another round of the same self-pity hangover.
But a comeback.
From perceived victim of circumstance…
to a victor over your old self.

That’s when you’re buying the next round —
and raising a glass to your own damn growth.
Not from ego — but from reverence.
Because you’re better off…
not because life got easier —
but because you met it differently.

- from today’s Daily Consciousness reflection,
dailyconsciousness.com

📊 When life hands you a low-vibe moment, what’s your move? 🤔

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