Another G’s gem. This is beautiful and its underlying messages so powerful. Make your own mistakes, and try to always make new mistakes, as therein lies the essence of growth. This is why I tend to not give or seek advice. Thanks for writing this. Loved it.
As an entrepreneur for the last 45 years it's always a new blend of simultaneous panic and exhilaration. If I want to play on the front lines of my own life it seems I have to accept both. My personal aim is to learn to panic with as much grace and humor as I can muster.
“it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It’s the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst enemy. We can’t tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
I loved this essay, Grace. You describing other versions of yourself, other unlived lives, really resonated. And the conclusion, that the best path is to return to your live and just step into it and take ownership of it (because its yours!) is so good.
Another G’s gem. This is beautiful and its underlying messages so powerful. Make your own mistakes, and try to always make new mistakes, as therein lies the essence of growth. This is why I tend to not give or seek advice. Thanks for writing this. Loved it.
As an entrepreneur for the last 45 years it's always a new blend of simultaneous panic and exhilaration. If I want to play on the front lines of my own life it seems I have to accept both. My personal aim is to learn to panic with as much grace and humor as I can muster.
“it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It’s the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst enemy. We can’t tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
Damn, Grace. That's all I gotta say. I'm just lucky you write.
You distilled the essence of the The Midnight Library so beautifully. Going to have to read it again soon.
I loved this essay, Grace. You describing other versions of yourself, other unlived lives, really resonated. And the conclusion, that the best path is to return to your live and just step into it and take ownership of it (because its yours!) is so good.
Amazing work :)
The only right way to live is it do, or at least that's what I think. Make decisions, fuck up a bit, it all blends into one [beautiful] life.