A Bit to Read

It’s much sunnier today, with a few streaky clouds in the sky. Warmer too, though so far i don’t see anyone enjoying it.

It is Tuesday, though.

So it’s probably not about the weather.

This morning I am thinking about how we frame resilience, and how we look at struggle. We’re a very win-lose society, and it definitely includes that assumed dichotomy of triumph over adversity.

But that’s not the only way to deal with adversity.

Sometimes, you’re not going to “triumph.” Sometimes, you won’t budge a boulder no matter how you shove at it.

Sometimes the struggle wins.

We’re conditioned to believe that makes us losers, that makes us failures, that makes us quitters, and all of those things are bad. We’re conditioned to believe that unless we keep our shoulder to that boulder, regardless of how it makes us feel, day in, day out, we are the ones at fault.

That there is a “win” for every situation.

And maybe there is. I don’t know any more about the mysteries of the universe than you do. Maybe for these situations, every single lock in the cosmos has a key.

And what if.

Even if that’s true.

Even if every single lock in the cosmos has a key.

What if.

It’s OK if we don’t find the one to our lock?

What if it’s OK to even stop looking?

What if that doesn’t make us quitters, it doesn’t make us failures, and it doesn’t make us losers?

What if it only makes us…peaceful?

You see, I have a little bit of a half-baked theory. I think all these pressures to keep going and win and not to quit are ways to usurp our energy, to keep our eyes averted from where they need to be, to stop us from dealing with the things that really, truly matter on a global scale.

Because we’re just too tired to sort through them, let alone try to dismantle them.

What if we’re looking at it all the wrong way? What if the big locks, the global locks, the universal locks are the ones that need us the most?

But this obstacle course of personal ones are mini-landmines to keep us hopping?

What can you quit? What can you fail at? In which ways can you lose?

Because too much is too much.

Then again, I don’t know any more about the mysteries of the universe than you do.

Have a great Tuesday. Your effort is good enough.

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