today’s prompt from maria popova:
when the repeated blows of disappointment leave you flattened to the ground of being drink with perseverance from the river of time for the dew of each beginning day may become water in the stream proceeding to a different end
from Oon
The grand fallacy in the world, you see, especially items from the establishment, such as media or photography, is that no one is without suffering. Many of you seem to have grasped that the achievement of your own yearning did not come without struggle.
It is in continuing forward that you get closer to your aim.
Trying, learning, and trying again.
What may feel like failure followed by failure in your mind is simply an experience you are being invited to learn from and cultivate anew. For another, their stumbling block is different, something you have perhaps mastered, and thus, their lesson different.