Imagine you’ve been handed a golden ticket—the promise of something incredible just around the corner. They tell you, “Hold onto this ticket, and soon you’ll have everything you’ve been waiting for. You just need to be patient, to endure a little hardship. Trust the process.”
So you hold on.
The months pass, then the years. You’re still struggling to afford groceries, healthcare is still out of reach, your town still looks the same—maybe even worse. Your wages haven’t gone up, but rent has. Your kids’ schools are still underfunded. Your roads still have potholes. But you keep holding the ticket, because they say, “The best rewards take time. The suffering now is necessary for the greatness that’s coming.”
And yet, those who gave you the ticket seem to be doing just fine. They’ve upgraded their houses, taken luxury vacations, given themselves bonuses. They remind you that the real problem is the people over there—your neighbors who don’t look like you, the journalists asking too many questions, the “elite” who think they’re better than you.
But when you look down at your hands, all you see is the same golden ticket. No real change. No prosperity. Just another promise of tomorrow.
So, the question is: at what point do you stop waiting and start asking where your reward is? At what point do you realize that the only thing they’ve ever given you is a ticket to nowhere?
At first, you try to ignore the doubt creeping in. You remind yourself of the speeches, the slogans, the certainty in their voices. They told you this was the way—the struggle, the sacrifice, the waiting. But as time passes, you start to wonder:
How long am I supposed to wait?
You look down at the golden ticket in your hands. It’s not quite as bright as before. The edges are fraying, the ink is smudging. You think back to the first time you held it—the rush of hope, the certainty that it meant something real. And yet, here you are, still struggling, still waiting.
Then a thought strikes you: What if the ticket itself was never real?
You take a deep breath. It’s hard to admit that you’ve been fooled. No one likes to feel deceived. But is it worse to face that truth, or to keep clinging to an illusion while your life slips by?
The voices that gave you the ticket will try to distract you. They’ll say it’s not them—it’s those other people keeping you from cashing in. They’ll tell you to hold on just a little longer. But you know the truth now.
You were never meant to win.
The ticket was never meant to pay out.
And now you have a choice: Do you keep waiting, or do you tear up the ticket and demand something real?
Because the moment you stop waiting is the moment you start taking back your power.
Spiritual Gravity 