By Mike Johnson
On the steeplechase of life, there are many course corrections.
Changing direction, like a fart in a space capsule, exposes something inescapable.
You wasted time going in the wrong direction.
But when you realize your mistake and adjust your course, in the deepest recess of your mind, you know you’ll be repeating this process all over again.
And again and again and again.
It never bloody ends.
Take a step in any direction and its certain you’re going in the wrong direction.
Because we keep redefining what we want.
Our minds are like an atlas in a blender.
It projects a shard of a map, but has no connection to the whole.
What we need, is less action and more introspection.
This is why it’s wise to spend the bulk of our time blueprinting rather than sawing and hammering.
We’re great at action.
We suck at blueprinting.
If we’re honest, we could follow a trail of discarded, half-assed structures all the way back to our birth.
Yet, that’s just the material perspective.
Which ignores the experience perspective.
Material is temporary, experience is permanent.
We can walk away from material but experience sticks to our soul.
Wherever we go next, we view it through the lens of experience.
Arguably, we are nothing BUT experience.
The trick then, is to minimize the pain and maximize the gain.
Because we took an oath, to maximize our growth.
So there really is no destination.
Just infinite choices that force the collection of experience.
There’s no way to “get there” because the journey never ends.
So here comes yet another course correction.
Or better said, a perspective correction.
I no longer see abandoned choices as wasting my time,
I see them as TASTING my time.
Because the taste of experience is remembered long after the digestion of the meal.
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