Our actions may be impeded . . . but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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For the last two days I had been occupied in a small treasure hunt.
I was preparing the introductory slides for Sauravi, and as I was adding the pieces and connecting the dots, I had to navigate through tons and tons of old photographs.
Well, I tell you, deliberately digging the past has its perks.
I feel more grateful that things are better today than it was before.
I feel I had been through so much that I can cry and still feel the warmth of perpetual joy.
I feel all the uncertainties and all the terrible shits I’ve been through gave me a unique skill to camouflage my colors; gave me skills to bend my ways as situation unpacked.
Those photographs also had me thinking about that one time when I went through a jungle of monumental panic attacks and heart pacing anxiety.
But then I made it anyway.
We all will.
Namaste.