Maybe you’ve done quite a lot today, and part of you is waiting for someone to say it’s enough. A gentle look at why that sentence feels so comforting.
personal growth
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“Are we nearly there yet?” That childhood question that could test a grown-up’s patience to the limit. Usually followed by, “How much longer?” or “Is it much further?” and, not long after, perhaps the slightly exasperated, “I don’t know!” I was reminded of this recently while thinking about what happens […]
Last week I wrote a post musing about the questions we secretly ask ourselves. I said it might become a series. It seems there are at least two of them, so apparently we’re calling it a series now. 😂 Last week’s question was Am I happy? Today, it’s Do I […]
On questioning a life that looks perfectly fine from the outside. There’s a particular kind of unsettling that doesn’t come from anything going wrong. It’s the feeling that can arrive when a life looks entirely fine from the outside — every box ticked, everything holding together — and yet something […]
Maybe we ask someone else within earshot. Maybe we ask no human at all and turn to AI. Or maybe they’re the sort of questions we find ourselves searching for answers to in the middle of the night, when everything seems more important than it did during the day. You […]
One thing I’ve noticed over the years is how much time we can spend trying to decide whether something is right for us. We imagine how it might go. We wonder whether it will be worth it. We try to predict how we’ll feel afterwards. Sometimes we end up stuck, […]
After a few weeks away from LinkedIn while I was limiting screen time because of my eye, I found myself wondering how to begin again. It wasn’t that I’d forgotten how to write. I’d simply lost the rhythm I’d fallen into. As I was thinking about it, I noticed the […]