letting go of what I can't do
One life skill I want to be better at is managing insecurity and feelings of "missing out" on what others already have achieved or experienced.
For example, when I see someone doing something great with their life, I feel compelled to ask myself why I'm not doing that. Why can't I do that? Will I ever do that? Let me figure out how I will do that? Damn I can't do that. I'm a failure I guess. <-- I need to control this.
The reality is that I can't do everything. It's good to get inspired but I need to stay focused on my current goals and be honest with myself on what I can do vs. what I want to do. I think a large part of this is to accept the feeling of loss when something won't be achievable.
Trying to think more stoically, we have finite amount of time here. I owe it to my future self to have made at least some decisions that maximise my impact in this lifetime including being courageous enough to say no things and just let them go.
Visually, I think about writing the thing on a piece of paper, folding it neatly, and blowing it away as it lands gently on a riverbed where thousands of other dreams, ambitions, goals lie. They're there and thye belonged to someone at that stage, but they are not lost. They float on.
dalle2 generated images with prompt: make an image with themes of stoicism, loss, missing out and decisions