Whenever you face a bigger problem, the discovery of how to solve it can take a while, many tries.
This kind of non-linear discovery, of trying, succeeding and then failing again, it’s part of how we learn things.
It’s quite easy to look back at how you arrived to the final solution through many iterative improvements, getting stuck and unstuck each time, but when you’re living in that moment when you’re stuck, when your last solution is failing and the problem is not fixed (and maybe never will) then in that moment it’s hard to believe that things will ever be fixed.
You could be tricked into thinking that you won’t ever fix it, that you’re only failing, but you get that vision only when you actually get to the other side of the spectrum, after many tries, after many successes and failures and only by keeping your mind and heart open.
Life, work, friendships. Those things are all non-linear, but in some ways we see the progression of our failures and successes as linear, as if they will stay the same as if they will continue their progression.
They might not. We go down and up continuously; we lose friends and gain friends; we forget about people we loved and love new ones; we find new struggles at work and fix things we thought were impossible to fix; and every time we think we’re at the end, that we’ve run of ideas life goes on, work goes on, everything continues.
Come on, give me the chills 