#539 It doesn’t matter what I decide

Playing the guitar hasn’t taught me to move my hands and fingers across strings. It has taught me to persevere whenever I’m failing over and over again until suddenly, it all clicks and the words, music, or movements flow.

Yoga hasn’t taught me to put my body in awkward poses. It has taught me to be aware of – and release – the tension in my body whenever I sit, walk, stand, and run.

Taking cold showers hasn’t taught me to withstand cold water. It has taught me to know to relax whenever my body tenses up in stress and my heart starts racing.

Learning a foreign language hasn’t taught me to say the same things with different words. It has taught me that there are different ways of perceiving the wordless world around me, and expressing what I feel inside.

When we isolate insights, most of the learning is lost on us.

Learn thematically. Ask yourself, “Where else does this apply?”

You won’t feel that you’re getting addicted to social media when you scroll through feeds on your smartphone every day. But you are.

You also won’t feel that you’re becoming a writer when you write just 1 minute a day. But you are.

You’re always on track to doing something or becoming someone. But rarely will it feel that way in the day to day.

Choose wisely.

You’ve spent your lifetime bumping into the limits of what you deem possible.

And you’ve also spent your lifetime overcoming the seemingly impossible.

Sit. Crawl. Walk. Speak. Read. Find love. Get over loss and heartbreak. Travel. Invent. Create. Learn. Write.

Overcoming the seemingly impossible is what makes you you.

Once you accept that, the question shifts from, “What’s possible for me?” to, “What are you overcoming next?”