Let It Be: A Level Set

The greatest lesson that I’m learning right now is to have patience.

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The greatest lesson that I’m learning right now is to have patience.

What am I doing — or trying to do — that can actually wait?

And at what cost?

It’s so easy to idealise ‘doing’, because from the outside it looks good.

It makes you seem accomplished.

It makes you seem like you know what you’re doing.

And hey, other people might even praise you for it.

But we don’t talk enough about the hidden (or not so hidden) toll this takes on us.

We don’t talk enough about how all of this ‘doing’ affects our ability to prioritise ourselves and our loved ones. There are always trade-offs, and ‘doing’ is no exception: when we are ‘doing’, we are not really present.

It’s not a personal flaw or show of weakness on our side/s, just a reality.

When we are 'doing’, we by definition can’t just ‘be’.

We’re human. We have limited capacity.

It is what it is.

‘Being’ is about observing and connecting with oneself in the moment, whilst ‘doing’ is future-oriented.

But what we don’t account …