Better Than Yesterday
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Better than yesterday.
It's a powerful invitation to growth and self-improvement.
An invitation to focus more on ourselves than on competing with others.
More on the progress than on the final outcome.
Yet, I can't help but sense also a trap in those words.
Or maybe it's just the other side of the coin.
Better than yesterday hints at life as a linear path of betterment.
But is it?
Honestly, from where I am, it doesn't look so.
Life feels more like a messy journey, full of loops, repetitions, pauses, back and forth, and deviations.
It doesn't look linear at all.
Yet, we expect it to be linear.
To be better than yesterday, every day.
We approach life more as a ladder than a river.
Each step making us better, and closer to the ideal version of ourselves.
What if we, at least sometimes, learn to approach life like a river?
A river doesn't question whether today it flows 'better' than yesterday.
It simply flows, sometimes rushing forward, sometimes creating quiet pools, sometimes even seeming to move backward in small eddies.
Yet, it always gets to the sea.
What might change in your journey if you stopped trying to be better than yesterday and instead learned to flow with your own natural rhythm?