22/04/2026
Watts is basically saying — we make life way heavier than it needs to be.
Think about it. The universe — god, source, consciousness, whatever lands for you — is just playing. Creation is a game. Life is this wild, creative, spontaneous expression of itself experiencing itself.
And then we come along and turn it into a performance review.
We make our worth a problem to solve. We make our roles — the good mum, the strong one, the woman who holds it all together — into these dead serious identities we have to protect and maintain. We argue with reality. We carry shame about things that were never even ours to begin with.
That's where the suffering lives. Not in life itself — in how seriously we take the story we're telling about it.
The universe isn't losing sleep over whether you got it right. You're the one white-knuckling it.
This is exactly what the Survival Stories are in my new course. They're the scripts you wrote as a kid — in total seriousness, because you thought you had to — and you've been running them ever since like your life depends on it.
Spoiler: it doesn't anymore.
The work isn't about fixing yourself. It's about finally seeing the game you've been playing — and choosing whether you still want to play it that way.
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