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The Hardest Thing is to Keep Going

Carly Ho 🌈 on March 08, 2018

Or: to my younger self, with love. Listen: things will be hard, and then they will be easy, and then they will get hard again, because you have ea...
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aurel kurtula • Edited

I love this. Amazing.

About things getting easier but we just can't imagine it ever will I read something like this which made everything clear (it was an advice for someone that thought would be single for ever but it applies everywhere)

Age 18: things were hard
Age 19: things were hard
Age 20: things were hard
Age 21: things were hard
Age 22: things were hard
Age 23: things were hard
Age 24: things were hard
Age 25: things were hard
Age 26: things were hard
Age 27: things were hard
Age 28: things were hard
Age 29: things were hard
Age 30: things were hard
Age 31: things were hard
Age 32: things were hard
Age 33: things were hard
Age 34: things were hard
Age 35: things were hard
Age 36: thing became a bit easier

If you read those lines without skipping, even reading to the end would be boring.

Now imagine if you are 30 and you have all those years where things were the same.

Believing that things could get from hard to easy to amazing is hard if the life so far doesn't indicate that it be so.

When I read something like that on quora I felt so at ease with myself. It so logical when you think about it, we are terrible at predicting the future, all we can do is give our all right now and let the future shape itself

I love your post

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B R E N D A N

oh wow. I never considered this before and really appreciate you sharing it, aurel.

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B R E N D A N

Everything about this is wonderful.

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Moe

Someday you’ll feel confident saying “I don’t know, but I’m sure I can figure it out” and it’ll be true.

Thank you!

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lovely