“Starting Over.”

 

H,

The fear is always that you cannot go at it again. There is this underpinning notion that you only have one shot at everything. The flawed logic of catchy Eminem songs aside, no one takes their first stab at anything worthwhile with much success. Life is much more managing failure than dwelling in success. We are always trying things to learn, through defeat, the most intelligent ways to succeed. This is the human lot; to create in chaos and learn not just the truth of the thing but the lies that push away from what will forever be.

 

There should be no fear of starting over. We are always essentially doing this, in some way or the other. We know the whole story. We are finding ourselves in the details. We are learning who we were always meant to be. There is no home on earth for a true pilgrim. The experiences we go through are just touchstones for the divine nature of everything. The temporal nature of this life we pursue is a pointer to transience and, later, transformation. We are always becoming better than we are today. We do not need a speech or a mentor or a guide to tell us this. Success and failure are not destinations; they are points on the same road. We are on a voyage to become the sort of people and live in the sort of place where all failure is ended and impossible.