it's an endless chase — as soon as it's attainable, the bar gets raised higher
it's okay to still want it but you can save yourself from a little grief by remembering where it all comes from!
But the inverse is also true that the totality of human experience is too complex and big and beautiful to fit into this flattened narrow thing we envision in our minds. The work is in reconciling our vision with the fruit of our labor we come to see before us and making peace with that, and maybe even iteratively redefining what we consider as success and why it matters to us
know your worth, but also i can't be bought, that being said, what is your price, but also i demand what i desire, but when all is said and done, desire can't turn me into a dum dum unless i let it
😳✋🏻hear me out🤚🏻😳 sometimes our dreams are no longer a source of motivation or inspiration and sometimes we cling so hard to them that we cause ourselves a lot of mental anguish and disappointment. We attach our identity to things like getting our dream job and when we don’t get the job our sense of self collapses.
Lately I‘ve been thinking a lot about the Jenny Holzer phrase, “Protect me from what I want,” and how it can be so freeing to let desire drop away to remember the things you already have. Such as innate worthiness as a human being regardless of the dream you couldn’t obtain 🫶🏻
step 1: learn it
step 2: plan to move there
step 3: fall in love in a completely different country and learn that language instead, completely overriding the language you just learned
on second thought just skip to step 3