Used to do and still can do

At some point, you will have to confront the fact that you are afraid and you are not going to be better at any of this. Perhaps it will happen sooner, perhaps later but somewhere in your 30s for most, we will be just old enough to start looking back and see what you used to do. This only amplifies as you get older. Ever so slowly things will start to be taken away. When this begins, there is a sense of loss that you will not be that person anymore. When we focus on what was, we can’t help but grieve.

There is an alternative. You can also start focusing on the things you can do because of the choices you make to walk away from. The more possessive we are the harder it is to accept. That life is impermanence. We are only here for a time. What a gift.