Beautiful Erica! Now consider this: what if there ARE no punches? What if you lived your life as if EVERTYHING that happens to you is for your joyful life experience? The Buddhist have a practice that says, pretend everyone on earth is enlightened and you are the last one to be enlightened - and as enlightened beings, they love you SO much, that everything they do is to GET you to that enlightened state of love; that they KNOW exactly what to do, exactly what you need, to get over any little hurdles to enlightenment and they are so willing to do anything - including appearing to you like an asshole! Including doing things that will give them bad karma! Including suffering bad judgement of loss of freedom or even death - because they LOVE you so much they are willing to do anything to get you enlightened and, as enlightened Buddhas they know exactly what you need in this moment, to take you to the next step. In this view, life becomes very sweet and without judgement of others, as you see everyone as loving you and you love them right back...no matter what it "looks" like, you know who they REALLY are and you can only see them as Love. What a sweet life! My friend Mary created a beautiful Blissipline around this concept which we will do in this TT - and it is very very timely in this age of pandemic and other social traumas!