Dancing Snail

Let me tell you a little trick I have for making life harder. When I come back home after meeting someone new or spending time with someone I don’t get along with, I replay our conversations over and over in my head. After messaging with someone I find difficult, that night in bed I’ll re-read the conversation from start to finish and ruminate on the parts where I might have slipped up. I think to myself: What did I go and say that for? Or I know what I should’ve said then. I dwell on where I went wrong and even grow concerned for the future. What if I made the same mistake again…?

Society seems to view pushing ourselves beyond our limits as some incredible virtue. But are limits always something to overcome? And what does ‘overcoming’ really mean? Achieving visible results? Not letting disappointment get us down, and instead getting back up and trying again? Isn’t the real virtue knowing how to rest once we’ve reached our limits? Maybe knowing how to handle disappointment is one of the most important skills we can possess.