Starting Scared doesn’t mean you’ll be scared forever, right? Right?

People trivialize the value of hard work these days. They presume all that’s necessary is smart work. And to some extent, I agree. Smart work can make heavy burdens feel as light as a feather. And that is not anything to sniff at, ever.

But smart work doesn’t get you there, wherever “there” may mean for you. Hard work does.

And if you’re turned off by my using the term, “hard work”, perhaps it may make more sense for you, as the work you have been studiously avoiding.

I’m currently producing uterine juice, my body silently berating me for not giving it the task of bearing babies, the goat meat I ate yesterday evening reminds me every time I have an acid reflux, I’m a goat and you chomped on my flesh, and my DSTV, which I’ve assigned the task of providing musical accompaniment to guide me through the night, seems to have taken leave of it’s senses, but something I have learned, and keep on learning, is that we don’t learn anything by success or in the comfort zone. We learn by failure. I just wish it weren’t so much of mine. 

And then I remember a saying that I love, “Even if life does not give us the gifts that we were hoping for, the real gift is life itself”, nothing says that I won’t achieve all the things I dream of achieving. I just have to combine hard work, and smart work and a little bit of patience, or a lottle bit, but I will achieve the things that I dream of, I know it. I n the wise words or lyrics of Lewis Capaldi, 

Most nights, I fear
That I’m not enough
I’ve had my share of Monday mornings when I can’t get up
But, when hope is lost
And I come undone

I swear to God, I’ll survive
If it kills me to
I’m gonna get up and try
If it’s the last thing I do
I’ve still got something to give
Though it hurts sometimes
I’m gonna get up and live
Until the day that I die
I swear to God, I’ll survive

Sometimes, that’s all you need to do: Survive, keep your head down and when you get to a point, begin to thrive. Because life is for living, not living uptight. Do you know what song that’s from? 

Here’s another video, I watched and loved, by a woman I admire a lot, Ms. Sarah Welch. Here.

Until next time, toodle oo!