Next week is April. How?
It’s such a cliche to comment on how fast the time is passing, but I really do feel like my life sped up a lot this year.
I’ve had this constant sense of being behind, running ever-faster to catch up to where I think I should be. I’ve heard this from others, too.
Behind what, exactly?
Behind my peers? Societal benchmarks? People I admire? My own highly biased, totally made-up expectations?
(The latter, most likely.)
None of it holds up to inquiry because comparison is a bogus metric.
You’re on your journey. I’m on mine. The world is unfair and wealth and privilege and opportunity and good timing and pure blind luck are all distributed unevenly.
Comparison is a bogus metric.
What might change if we collectively allowed ourselves to believe that?
Oh and thank you for the reminder to stop comparing myself to all the Rocketship newsletters on here.
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The "it's only been two weeks and I've got a billion subscribers" crowd
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That feeling, which I hate mind you. can be referred to as Time Anxiety.
I should be there, not here
I wasted so much time I'll never catch up
It's too late for me to do X
It's all rubbish. And as many a great mind has said, action trumps fear.