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would you like to continue?

a question we encounter more often than we may notice.

when watching Netflix, playing a video game, confronted by a friend, cut in an audition, disappointed by a situation… we are asked by life over and over, would you like to continue?

every morning, we can decide a new thing.

in everything, everywhere, all at once, waymond gives evelyn a choice in the elevator on the way to their appointment. she can either turn left to their scheduled appointment or turn right and go into the janitor’s closet. almost predicting she would still go to the appointment, he pre-emptively gives her a piece of paper with another option to stray from the usual.

at which point, with enough pressure, she takes a chance.

the question is no longer “do you want to continue?”. the question is now “do you want things to change?”.

complacency is powerful. it is comfortable. warm. familiar. predictable.

it’s boring.

yes, i seek to continue but more interestingly, i seek more.

and more sounds better to a lot of people.

we want more money. more things. more love. more accolade.

but with more of any of those things, comes more discomfort.

and that’s what stops us.

some things are easy to continue and get more of. an episode of netflix requires very little but the press of a button. trying again to beat a level in a video game just needs you to move your hands and fingers again.

confronting a friend may end in losing them or strengthen your bond.

being cut in an audition either thickens your skin or breaks you.

a disappointing situation may traumatize you. or it may grow you.

it’s really our comfort level that stops us from that potential success. we are more afraid of failure and would rather accept what we have received so far than try and fail.

most of us would rather eat a fruit before it is ripe than run the risk of it rotting.

to commit to what that victory may look like, we also commit to what that downfall looks like.

but mistakes happen.

we are human afterall.

we are not perfect and we will never be.

and the sooner we accept that.

we stop settling for simply continuing. simply going in the same little circle.

we break out.

we change.

we fly.

we soar.