wanderingintofocus

"The thing that scared her most was not hiding in a cupboard, or under the bed, or floating in the corners of the room like a ghost. The thing that scared her most was inside her head, pressing its thumbs against the backs of her eyeballs and whispering from the insides of her ears:  "You have been chosen, not for one unhappiness, but hundreds, and I will make you yell at your mother, and hit your friends, and bite and scrape and burn your own skin,  I will make the days long and the nights even worse, and you will hide in your bed, under the blankets, and in the dark, away from the lights and the crowds and the noise, until the day you decide that things would be easier if you never woke up at all." - The Almighty Sometimes, by Kendall Feaver _ I remember a not-so-tactful exchange with a colleague before, something along the lines of the necessity to complete a course. They claim that to have the mental resilience to see through the programme, we cannot consider quittin...

On achievement, the incommensurability of struggle, fish in a tree; soup with a fork, and a brief discussion on mental health and psychological safety at the workplace _ "If there's one thing that I've learnt from video games, it's that if you meet more enemies, then you're going in the right direction." - Anon In the discussion of worldly achievement, struggle and setbacks are often framed as prerequisites for success. However, it may be possible that this confuses the necessary for the causal, in our perception that more struggle is correlated with a higher degree of future success.  We may first resolve the discussion of whether struggle is necessary for success and achievement. "And it's the hard way "But it's the right way "The right way... to break in a glove "With something like this, you gotta be ready to put in the work, make the commitment. So what do you think?" - To Break in a Glove, from Dear Evan Hansen (musical) ...