🛣️ TREE 573: Your path is your path

When I was a kid, I thought my parents did a terrible job of raising my little sister. I was good. She was naughty. When I broke the rules, I got in trouble and learned from. When she broke the rules, my parents were all over the shop. They were inconsistent and needed to get their act together, I thought in my infinite 13 year-old wisdom.

Now that I’m no longer an idiot, I realise they were figuring out how to raise a kid who was different from me. She needed an entirely different type of parenting than I did. This is normal.

It doesn’t change once you grow up.

Just because a method
life hack
exercise
job
philosophy
is someone else’s One True Thing, doesn’t mean it will work for you.

This means you don’t need to feel bad when a thing doesn’t work for you. Neither do you need to declare the proponent of the thing is wrong.

I’m talking about the small things
and the big ones.
Your path may mean that you need to
leave your religion and your belief in God behind
or give up your atheism and find God
or become a Buddhist,
or join Islam
or leave them.
You may need to
reject partisan politics
or become a party activist.
You may need to quit your job and start your dream business
or sell your business and get a job.
You may need to keep on doing exactly what you are doing right now
or you may need to tweak a few things.

Your path is yours.

Always learn from other people while remembering you are not on their path.

Carter is never not amazed by how utterly majestic his tail is.

If they formed the band in the 2020s, would they be called Streaminghead? Anyway, this song!

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Grow slowly
Jeff