What does the word “tired” mean when someone says, “I’m just so tired of hearing about Trump.”?

I belong to that club myself, and I’ve written I don’t know how many essays about the man.  But here’s what I’ve learned along the way.  The weariness we feel can open a door to the joy of existence.  How?  By spurring us to cultivate one of life’s most important skills.  Freeing pain. 

That’s because pain is exhausting, until we realize we have tools to free it, and use them.

In fact, pain is more than exhausting.  As our understanding of addiction deepens, leading voices (such as physician Gabor Maté, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts) contend that at the root of all addiction, no matter the form, is the pain of a psycho-spiritual emptiness a person is attempting to escape. Read More