WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT I WROTE FOR A FRIEND BUT IN A LANGUAGE I CANNOT READ MYSELF

October 27, 2022 / John Grimmett

Enough with second-guessin’.
Listen up:
here’s the lesson —

Modify the expectation.
Build skill and expertise
and emotional regulation.
Forego the need to please.

Focus on your passion
and the things that make you strong.
When impatience is in fashion,
being right is being wrong.

A storybook ascendance
makes a too-convenient climb,
betraying our dependence
on loss and love and time.

For there is only learning
in the losing, not the win.
So why focus on the yearning?

Begin again.
Again…

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