THE ADVOCACY FOR MUSCLE

There’s a cycle that comes when you are learning new things. First, you see the thing you want to learn, you’re super inspired by it and you want to know what it would be like if you could do it yourself, and dependent on how much you resonated with that thing, is how much you will sacrifice for it. In the beginning, it’s exciting because you’re still in the dream state of you mastering that thing, but that was a small mountain to climb until you see the 100 miles of flat land with pure uncertainty ahead. Thankfully, the road is not too empty, the destination rarely ever shows itself, but aid shows itself in many different ways, it’s just a matter of surrendering to the task. After a while, slow improvements come and go, more flat land and small mountain peaks follow, and then finally… The muscle is fully formed and activated, and once it’s activated, you are satisfied, but the feeling that you had when you first wanted it vs. having it is different. The satisfaction is pure and stable; not only have you gained muscle in a certain skill or subject, you gained a muscle in self-trust.