The Art Of Moving Forward Without Guarantees
Have you ever experienced a moment where your effort didn’t match the outcome? May I ask what that experience taught you about life and resilience? While we were kids, we grew up believing life is a sequence of steps; Work hard, be good, follow the "set rules", and success will follow. But the truth is that reality is messier. You can do "everything right", study diligently, act kindly, make responsible choices, and still face setbacks, rejections, and disappointments. Meanwhile, someone else may do everything “wrong,” take shortcuts, ignore the "said rules", and still fall into success as if fortune guided them by the hand. That will definitely make us feel that life is unfair. But the truth is that life is not mathematics. It’s art. It is chaos wrapped in grace. It’s timing, opportunity, intuition, courage, luck and grace. Fact check: Success is not a reward exclusively given to the deserving, and failure is not punishment for being insufficient. Some...