It's been 60 days since I declared 'One Post a Day'.
My back pain has lessened significantly.
While it's not completely gone, I've decided to trust my body.
I believe in resilience.
Both our bodies and minds possess the ability to heal themselves.
We have self-healing powers.
Our bodies and minds find ways to keep us going.
Although we separate and name them as body, mind, and spirit, in reality, they are a unified whole.
Body, mind, and spirit are interconnected.
They operate as a single mechanism: resilience.
They strive to maintain our optimal state.
We add supplementary help to this process.
I'm not just talking about treatments or medications.
Food and exercise play a role, but
our thoughts are even more crucial.
Through breathing and thoughts alone,
we can change many things.
Or rather, we can make different choices.
We can always choose to be pessimistic and complain, but I strive to choose positivity and gratitude.
Even in darkness, there is light,
and even in suffering, there are things to be grateful for.
If someone were to call this brainwashing,
I'd rather be brainwashed in a positive direction.
What's wrong with being grateful and seeing things positively?
Of course, we might get betrayed by someone we've been grateful to.
It would have been great to know beforehand, but now that I do, I can simply avoid being manipulated by such individuals in the future.
I've learned something new, so thank you again.
There's no need to fear or be ashamed of failures and mistakes.
Failing means you've tried something.
If you've made a mistake, you've gained an opportunity to rethink and try again.
It might take time to recover what you lost due to a mistake,
but it'll be quicker than starting from scratch.
Then, you can make a new choice.
When you hit a dead end in a maze, instead of starting over, you retrace your steps to find a turning point and make a different choice.
We can't predict the future, but we can choose what we do now.
Our choices shape today, and those todays accumulate to transform tomorrow's life.
All of this is my choice.
I can write or not write.
No one has forced me to blog.
Some have encouraged me, but the choice is mine.
I decided to write regularly instead of occasionally.
It would be ideal to write at a specific time every day, but for now, I write whenever I have time and opportunity.
I blog with the goal of writing at least one post a day.
As I write, I realize how much I lack.
I think I've studied writing quite a bit, but it's hard to feel like I'm improving.
It's like swimming.
It's like learning a foreign language.
Studying swimming and swimming skills are different.
Studying a foreign language and speaking it fluently are different.
Writing, swimming, and foreign languages all require practice.
Repetition is necessary for mastery.
When pushing forward slowly and with difficulty, it's hard to know if you're improving.
Looking back later, there will inevitably be a moment when you wonder how you got this far.
I've decided not to postpone making up my mind.
I've decided to act when I've made up my mind.
That 'One Post a Day' journey I started is now 60 days old.
I've overcome various hurdles and challenges to get here.
Challenges are hidden everywhere in life.
We don't know when we'll encounter them or how long they'll linger.
Despite unexpected encounters and persistent obsessions, we always have the power to choose.
When I write and distance myself from myself through conversation, I find the bright side.
Life has prepared things we never imagined.
That's what makes life interesting. If we only walked on well-trodden paths, there would be no anticipation or excitement in this journey, and there would be nothing new to etch into our memories, leaving us without joy, inspiration, and recollections.
Trust yourself and move forward.
You have made a choice.
I've also decided to take responsibility for my choices and move forward.
I've decided to reward myself for the struggles I endure.
Failure for those who choose and try is another name for success.
Challenges are evidence of growth. It's because you're trying that it's tough.
If you do nothing, nothing happens.
If that's preferable, choose it.
Even in the movie 'The Matrix', after taking the red pill and realizing the truth,
there are people who choose to return to the Matrix by taking the blue pill.
I don't intend to judge their choices. It's their decision.
It's simply different from what we strive for.
Those who choose to blog,
read posts from fellow bloggers,
and decide to produce content, whether it's information or writing,
I guarantee their choices will be different.
Recently, I came across a free e-book that contained this statement:
The author, who posted daily on their blog for two years,
said that only about 1% of the bloggers who started with them are still active.
They stated that initially, 10% remained, and then another 10%.
That's how they arrived at 1%.
If you want to be part of that 1%, keep blogging.
I also need to abandon the concepts of superior and inferior.
In a single-lane race, there's fierce competition and a hierarchy.
However, paths are open in all directions.
We're not competing for rankings.
We're the 1% who forge our own paths.
Create your own path. It doesn't matter whether it makes money or not.
Simply having created a new path enriches life.
Joy is amplified. Fun awaits.
You can start your day with your own choices.
There's absolutely no reason to choose complaints, dissatisfaction, and unhappiness over happiness and gratitude.
You can fill your life with happy todays.
You can choose your path and create new ones.
Our challenges are sometimes life's call to pave new paths.
Life loses us to find us.
- From Ryu Si-Hwa's "This Isn't the Life I Imagined"
Just like Ryu Si-Hwa's words,
if you ever feel lost,
look up and find a new path.
Our lives become more enjoyable when we encounter unpredictable turning points
and accumulate small successes.
Failure is another name for success.
Challenges are another name for growth.
A happy today is your duty and right.
Seize it! Today's happiness!
Photo: Vladislav Babienko from Unsplash
I support your challenges.
Just keep going.
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