You’ve gotta be careful, they crack, crack, crackle so easily. They’re fragile unstable things, especially if you go and take a stroll upon them. The only way not to loudly rudely pulverize them is by standing perfectly still. Don’t even shift your weight, don’t make a sound.

Egg shells were not meant to be walked upon and they were not meant to be scattered and prevent walking around important subjects. The destiny of the egg shell is always to be cracked – be it for your meal of for the baby chick to start its life. It seems we’re in a culture of walking on egg shells creating a safe “don’t speak your mind” environment of political correctness and anesthetized compliance, since everything can be taken as offensive if not so generic and bleached that you couldn’t possibly be accused of cracking a shell. If you’re not a complete bigot or ill willed individual you should be able to speak your mind freely and so should others. Freedom of speech is not here as an excuse for anyone to say what they want if it is mean, cruel, unproductive or uninformed. It’s a chance to have a dialogue and find common grounds which yield solutions that are satisfactory to the largest possible number of people. It is here to challenge ideas and points of view and introduce new ones so the systems and their members can grow and benefit from the opposition. Chances are both have some piece of the puzzle the other is blind to, closed narrowly in their own bubble. Free speech is here to pop the bubble but eggshells prostrated around the bubble and the fake moralizations surrounding the sounds of crackling prevent this.

So we keep things bland and beige in the mainstream and need to find alternate source of information available out there where true discussion is still a possibility. If everyone is just politely regurgitating nonsense empty claims, with their eyes closed and ears covered, nothing gets done. When things are beige challenge gets a new derogatory name “stress”, as if stress was something bad. Stress is a growth mechanism and every exercise or learning you’ve ever done was stressful to the body and mind and you didn’t die – your body and knowledge grew, you build new muscle tissue and new neurons. This is not to say that opposition is the only thing that should be. Too much of a good thing can be equally detrimental as too little (explore hormesis), but it is a cry for the spicing of stagnant blandness.

Most meaning in our lives comes from some form of struggle, investing of energy and time into what we feel is wort it. The more difficult the process the more energetically committed to it we are because it demands more investment. If you pick your own battle and go about it intelligently, with a passion, respect for those who think differently and a stance that you can learn from opposition there will still be challenges, but they will manifest as opened excitement not the misused boogieman of “stress”. Picking your own burden to carry is analgesic. You’ll fight harder and are willing to take all the not so pleasant spaces as sacrifices. Meaning is hidden in holding yourself responsible for some things and there is none in constant comfortableness. We’ve never been more comfortable as a species and never more depressed, lonely and suicidal. All the while some of the worst periods in history saw far less suicides and self-abusive behaviour because a mission to survive and thrive despite the circumstance was in place. A mission gave people the will to fight and the difficulty provided meaning and something to fight for. We all need meaning. Without it there is no motivation and no imperative to move.

Find something worthy; tell the truth and leave the egg shells to fragile things as eggs. You’re not fragile and were made to adapt, learn and fight, thriving all the way through. As Jim Rohn put it: “Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better.”