Unlucky

You are not unlucky. You are not going through a bout of bad luck. You are certainly not a failure.

Things, both positive and negative, happen all the time. And you need to keep your sense open to be able to perceive the good ones as strongly as the bad ones.

Luck is important, but it can’t be the explanation you give to what’s going on around you.

The number

If the main goal of your job is a number. If there’s no larger purpose, no higher ambition, no bigger system. If when the goal is hit, the counter resets and you start from scratch. If you can do it all on your own, from anywhere, at anytime. If you not doing it, simply means that someone else will take over trying to reach the number.

Then, how long can it last?

Pointless

The idea that a country can solve its problems by closing its borders is as pointless as the idea that a person can heal their wounds by confining to their own room.

Suffering

The purpose of life is not to eliminate suffering. It is not to reduce it either.

The purpose of life is to get acquainted with it.

So that you can recognise it, manage it, and enjoy all the little moments when suffering is not there.

Solutions

For as counterintuitive as it might sound, sometimes – perhaps often times – you don’t need a solution.

You need to listen to yourself and others.

You need to stay in the situation.

You need to allow time to pass.

You need somebody to be in it with you.

If you can accept this kind of immobility, you’ll find that solutions are just a bridge to the following problem.