The pattern

[netpositive]

"If you see a whole thing - it seems that
it's always beautiful. Planets, lives....
But close up a world's all dirt and rocks.
And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired,
you lose the pattern."
Ursula K LeGuin, "The Princess"

Work is currently crazy and busy and stressful.
Outside of work, things feel disjointed - chaotic.
Right now, my life feels full of tiny frustrations,
bruised by collisions between my dreaming and my reality.
I do try to make amusing stories out of them - with
myself cast as the ruefully laughing goat - but inside
I may be suffering from the contusions of daily life.
Be gentle with your laughter. Be kind to my spirits!

I need to remember to step a step back sometimes
and to review all the paths that I am following.

And I will value even my stumbles and bruises
when they arise from fuller engagements between
what my path is, and what I am trying to achieve.

If the goal is overwhelming,
it's okay to take baby steps.
My goal is not just to survive,
but to live.

POSITIVE RESPONSE TO FAILURE will be used only if
a viewer has failed to complete a task. It will follow
ENCOURAGEMENT AFTER DIFFICULTY.
-from Design Patterns for i-Media