Struggling with a weak signal...
The Wi-Fi here
is sluggish and frustrating...
So few things travel at the speed of thought...
At the speed of want...
What we desire to have happen
rarely happens
when we want it to happen...
It can happen in a flash
when you're not wanting it
so feverishly,
but perspective is different
when your eyes are closed...
An instant
could be something
that had decades of backstory
and preparation
to become,
so long as we are
unaware...
Traveling with open eyes and set expectations
takes energy...
Slows momentum...
A watched pot boils
several nanoseconds slower
than an untended one...
Conscious attention increases the mass
of any given situation
thus requiring ever more energy
to push that idea
to its birth...
We rarely simply
let the current carry us...
We rarely do anything
without protestation or resistance...
We sometimes see obstacles where there are none...
We see openings
that turn out to be illusion...
Brick walls
that we could climb
had we seen them
instead of careening headlong
into them...
Patience is a virtue, I've heard said,
but virtue is a subjective construct,
and patience is simply
learning to settle for less
than you deserve...
Limitation is an illusion
that millions of smaller minds
force upon the potentially great...
The idea of limitation
keeps the masses under control...
The lie of limitation
kills the best of us,
and often elevates
the worst of us
to the top...
Tradition and mythology
like a lead weight
capping a well...
Concrete and rebar
making up our tomb...
Digging through is not impossible,
but it is slow going...
And you need tools...
Very specific, hardened steel tools...
And all along
the clock is ticking...
We are only given so much time
to complete the journey...
Only so much time to
figure out the puzzle...
Not everybody does...
But everybody eventually dies...
I guess that's our motivation...
Beat the clock
while wading through molasses...
Swimming across rivers of thick honey,
we often don't taste the sweetness of it
through the struggle
to not drown in it...
Limbs grow tired...
What could simply sustain,
can also suffocate...
We have no real choice
but to keep struggling...
Warriors in constant training...
Focused intent...
Rising above the time it takes
to lose awareness of time...
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