# Heed. Ignore.

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-11-16

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The advice is heard, but it doesn’t resonate.

It’s not that I don’t respect you. It’s that, for some reason, what you’re saying is not landing in a place of low friction.

I’m feeling resistance.

It manifests as angst, a shiver, depth of despair and fear that there is future suffering to be experienced and which I want to avoid.

But why is there resistance?

Is that my ego, stubbornly trying to defend a self-image?

Or is it my True Self, gently deflecting because this isn’t the path that needs to be trodden?

Or, just maybe, the advice isn’t really about me at all.

Maybe it’s given because the giver has a void she’s trying to fill?

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*Originally published on [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/heed-ignore)*