Progress is always a journey, one you have to actively tread every day to see results. It's arduous and tedious, but I think it's worth it in the end, when you can look back and see the wonderful distance you've traveled to get here. Thank you for sharing your piece!
Progress does not happen overnight; but sometimes, as your eyes adjust to daybreak, you wonder if it will ever arrive, ever step past the here, the now.
Some mornings, I fight the urge to quit; I paint on a smile and look for the positives, willing progress to grow from the optimistic seeds I sow as I walk to the bus.
Other mornings, the heaviness makes me question why I do it. Why I’m so hesitant to throw in the towel. Why I choose to live within this Sisyphean curse, taking action and seeing no meaning; putting in the effort and observing no outcome. Day after day. Ad infinitum.
It’s within the questioning that the answers come; that cause me to continue, relentlessness the only thing pushing me forwards.
Why?
Because I want to.
Because I choose to.
Because as I walk those same streets each morning, I will continue to spread those seeds; and one day I will look back and see the sprigs of hope growing from the cracks in the kerbsides. Someday, progress will be visible. Someday, it will all be worth it.
Progress is always a journey, one you have to actively tread every day to see results. It's arduous and tedious, but I think it's worth it in the end, when you can look back and see the wonderful distance you've traveled to get here. Thank you for sharing your piece!
Thought I’d post here too -
Progress does not happen overnight; but sometimes, as your eyes adjust to daybreak, you wonder if it will ever arrive, ever step past the here, the now.
Some mornings, I fight the urge to quit; I paint on a smile and look for the positives, willing progress to grow from the optimistic seeds I sow as I walk to the bus.
Other mornings, the heaviness makes me question why I do it. Why I’m so hesitant to throw in the towel. Why I choose to live within this Sisyphean curse, taking action and seeing no meaning; putting in the effort and observing no outcome. Day after day. Ad infinitum.
It’s within the questioning that the answers come; that cause me to continue, relentlessness the only thing pushing me forwards.
Why?
Because I want to.
Because I choose to.
Because as I walk those same streets each morning, I will continue to spread those seeds; and one day I will look back and see the sprigs of hope growing from the cracks in the kerbsides. Someday, progress will be visible. Someday, it will all be worth it.