The good news it that you are in charge. You choose what to do, how to spend the day, what to eat, how frequently to exercise, how to spin the story, what people you go out with, how to get back up after a bad fall.
The bad news is that there is no excuse.
A thought is just a thought if you don’t hold on to it.
A feeling is just a feeling if you don’t hold on to it.
A failure is just a failure if you don’t hold on to it.
I guess the point is that we should spend more time unlearning to hold on.
You are not what you do when you have the money. When you are relaxed, you have bandwidth, you hear people cheering for you. You are not what you do when you are on top, at your best, well-dressed. You are not what you do when you have all the options and no stake in the outcome.
You are you especially when there’s no choice. That’s where your true you is.
Those moments are precious.
We want a job to seek stability, and then we want to leave that job to seek freedom.
We pursue relationships to seek companionships, and then we want to leave those relationships behind because we feel like we lost ourselves.
We follow a passion to seek fulfilment, and then we want to abandon that passion to catch up with all the achievements we had stopped pursuing.
It’s not them. It’s not the job, the relationships, the passion.
It’s us.
As a person in a position of power (a parent, a manager, a politician) your role in a moment of crisis is to inspire tranquillity.
That’s how others around you can continue to think clearly and help everyone out of the crisis.
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