#73 Why am I rushing?

When you feel inspired, write.

When you feel you don’t have a single sensible word in you, write.

When you feel like the last thing you want to do is writing, write.

Because writing will bring your identity and mindset back to where it
belongs.

Because you’re a writer.

And writers write.

Learning a foreign language is both a frustrating and liberating experience.

We can focus on the frustration of not understanding the words the way we understand our mother tongue. Or we can realize that without the words, we are free to fall back on other ways of capturing and understanding meaning.

A crying baby can be soothed by words it does not yet understand, because she senses what’s behind the sounds, lets the meaningless melody cradle her to sleep…

Similarly, we don’t always have to know what’s behind the words, as long as we make an effort to understand the meaning behind the sounds.

Hearing a foreign language brings us back to that wordless world the way we experienced it as a newborn, before we tried so hard to put everything within and around us into language.

It makes us remember, there’s more to life than our words will ever allow us to express. And somehow, that’s a soothing thought.

You can be a writer with spelling mistakes.

A language learning expert who is afraid of speaking a foreign language.

A psychologist who doesn’t always feel good.

A teacher who doesn’t have all the answers.

You can be anything.

And you’ll always be human.

Your best writing can only happen when you’re writing.

Your running PR can only happen when you’re running.

And your most cherished moments with friends can only happen when you’re with your friends.

You can try to time life.

But the only foolproof way to live your best moments do is by showing up in the moment.