The cost of complacency is missing out on the emotional rewards of success, from taking risks that trying something new can foster. Can this, in fact, generate a staleness and bitterness in the mind that can even turn dark in the form of jealousy and even hatred for those with a genuine zest for life?

This indeed will happen if the person fails to appreciate what is taking place and judges the self as faulty in some way because of the missed opportunities, and the perception of doing a poor job when something is attempted but fails to be rewarding. Most people learn the lessons during youth that no one, as they see evidenced by their peers fumbling and failing again and again, can do anything at the first try with any consistency. Much practice is required to master even the simplest things. Life is hard and the manipulations in the physical realm are particularly demanding because there is a body to train and the mind is not used to having to do this, it is used to working with thought alone, so everyone is starting out at a disadvantage and whether they can achieve successful mastery and develop the requisite skills and tap into inner talent to become successful and have rewarding activities will depend on diligence and openness to learning, dedication to the quest, and a kind of fearless determination to keep going even when there are setbacks and failures at times. Most children take this in stride and it only motivates them to work harder because they do not see themselves as faulty, they just simply see they need to go back into the fray and try once again, and will often grit their teeth and go at it with a fierceness that makes adults look like slackers. When people have been disappointed too many times, when they have been thwarted by a series of failures and have difficulty mounting an adequate performance to meet some expectations of the self or others, perhaps in a competitive setting like school or the workplace, the negative reactions that trigger inner doubts and fears can start a downward spiral of worsening negative emotions and result in a frank trauma event which simply means a serious level of suffering happens. And if that is the case, it will likely have a permanent residence not only within the akashic record but linked energetically to the person who experienced it and it will resonate, and it will get triggered again, and again, and again with any similar event where the person falls short in some way, and then the old failures and all the stored pain will pile on to the current moment and greatly worsen the emotional consequences. This is a prescription for failure when too many such things happen and are unattended with an effective healing process so they do not build up to a breaking point. Given that people have so many other lifetimes where bad things happen and that these, in actuality, are all unfolding in parallel, and further, that there is crosstalk among the parallel lives so each person in their current life will be bombarded by energies bleeding through from these other occurrences, there are ample opportunities to stumble and create a setback of some kind when the person is unable emotionally to cope for a time and things get out of hand. There may need to be a deliberate series of steps taken even to survive if things get bad enough. There are built-in mechanisms for this as well when people can have a so-called meltdown. This is to create an enforced time-out that would allow some rest and recuperation so the individual will not simply soldier on and return to the battlefront and risk something worse happening. And in many cases what the deep subconscious is fearing is physical death because it may well have happened, or be happening in parallel lifetimes, where a failure is not simply losing one’s job, but losing one’s life and may be seen that way as a realistic possibility for the current life, even though the conscious self would never agree that it could be in real danger. What matters is if the deep inner self believes this is so. There will be an emotional stake in everything that happens and the person will act accordingly, at least at the mercy of their emotions, to seek a safe harbor and avoid sources of danger as perceived by the deep subconscious more so than the conscious self in many cases, because it knows more about all that is happening to the being across multiple timelines.