23 January 2024

The baby went to daycare today and I was able to catch up on some much needed rest. Everything has basically been a blur for the last week and it will still take a minute for me to get my bearing and figure out what’s happening in life now. There’s a phrase in my head that I’ve been trying to clean up, making it more compact and understandable, since my brain is still tired I’ll write about it now to air out some ideas maybe getting to the desired result. “How can you do something I can’t, without being able to do everything I can do?” First the struggle here is comparing two humans which we should never do because they’re so different, it’s also touching on the fact that humans have facets. The initial question presumes that progress is linear and that there is only one path that everyone must go through to get anywhere. That belief could be a limit to human thinking, we read in a straight line. Imagine a book compiled into an infograph where the words are larger based on their frequency used. The whole book would be visible in one image, but the story would be gone. To answer my question I think the facets help, people are born more like shapeless stones and through life those stones are polished in different ways. Making one side look exquisite might leave the rest neglected, while working on all sides may keep the stone from letting any brilliance shine through. There doesn’t seem to be any right or wrong method, my only guidance to people is that we have to put work into the stone like it or not. And it is a representation of the life we live, so it’s best to find a happy way to work.