Our biggest fear is death. When you boil down every specific fear it’s a relief to get to the bottom and realize you aren’t going to die. Death is super scary, we want to live.
But once death is out of the equation, we tend to resist living and growing. We end up caught in the middle where it’s safe, somewhere between not officially dying and not officially growing.
We might take on the occasional small project where we learn a few things but look forward to the “end” so that when we are finished we don’t have to do anything that makes us uncomfortable anymore. (Retirement anyone?)
My ego used to think I would get “there”. I was smart enough that I could figure it out and then I could be magnificent and get on with doing the things I wanted to do.
I’m now far beyond where I used to think “there” was, and I have humbly discovered that it’s an endless journey. Getting “there” would mean I’m done, it’s over, and I have nowhere else to go.
I don’t want to get “there” especially now that I realize what that means. I have discovered that there isn’t anyone else who is “there” if they are still “here” on earth. Because the journey isn’t over.
So the alternative to getting “there” is to keep learning as much as we can with the intention of becoming a better version of ourselves along the way.
Oprah says, “after 34,000 interviews I can confidently say that we all want the same thing. Every single one of us. We all want to become the highest and truest expression of ourselves.”
Once you understand this, the journey begins to make sense. Once you own this you are on your way.
And since we won’t ever get “there”, we can only be a little bit better, then a little bit better, and then a little bit better again.
Always living, always becoming, and always humble in order to become the greatest and highest expression of ourselves.