Where you are placed is where you belong now | A story starting from the pebbles at your feet | The courage to step forward "from here" #3🌈

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Last time, I wrote about the theme that "the place where you are placed is the starting point 'from here'."

This time, I will write about the theme of "the whistle of the past and the giant wall in front of me."

Murmurs ☺️ The whistle of the past and the giant wall in front of me

When we embrace the pain of the past and reminisce about the days gone by, we should be ready to take a new step forward.

However, have you ever felt that that step is like a giant wall?

I have, albeit vaguely😓

Not knowing where to start, I just stand still before the vague future spreading out in front of me.

I think it is like the loneliness of being thrown into the middle of a vast desert, with no idea which way to go to reach an oasis.

"From here"When the words feel like a distant star out of reach, what should we do?

Hmm... It feels like there is an answer, yet there isn't one 🤔

I just muttered a little🫡

1. Look at the pebbles at your feet

At times like that, please try gently turning your gaze toward the small pebble rolling at your feet. It is an ordinary, unremarkable pebble found anywhere.

However, if you were to pick up this pebble and continue walking in silence, one step and then another, eventually that pebble would become a certain signpost for the beginning of your journey.

Big goals✨or grand dreams🌈.

　They are certainly attractive.

But if we become too fixated on them, we end up unable to move from 'here'.

It is as if we are students standing frozen before a test paper, unable to solve a single question because we are too busy searching for the perfect answer...

What we truly need is just a little something we can do in this very moment. That 'little something' is the first key to opening up the future.

2. Breaking free from perfectionism: Start with one stroke

I had a friend who used to say his dream was to become a novelist. Every day, he would refine ideas, build concepts, and collect a lot of research material. Yet, his manuscript never progressed.

One day, he said to me:

'I want to write a perfect novel. That's why I can't write yet.'

It was like a sailor who keeps drawing the perfect nautical chart at the port without ever setting sail.

I told him:

'There is no way you can write a perfect sentence from the start. Start with one character, no, even one stroke is fine. Just try writing it!'

He was confused at first, but one day, he really started by writing just one stroke.

And then, one stroke a day.

That, eventually,

became a single character,

then a single sentence,

and before long, a short story,

and then it connected into a full-length work.

3. Small steps create big changes

We know that from just a single seed, a lush forest eventually grows. We also know that small water droplets gather to eventually become a great river.

Our lives are the same.

Taking just one step today.

Waking up just a little earlier than yesterday.

Learning one new word.

Such simple actions, just that much, eventually create big changes you never even imagined. It is just like how the countless stars shining in the night sky, though each one is small, gather to become a magnificent galaxy☆彡

"From here" is by no means a magic spell. It is something that is slowly, yet surely, shaped by the accumulation of daily small choices and modest actions.

When you feel like giving up, if you look up and see a clear blue sky spreading out, that alone might be enough to give you the courage to take another step.

4. The roadside flower I found when I was a coward

When I was little, I always thought of myself as a coward. I was afraid to try new things and was always afraid of failure.

However, one day, on my way home from school, I found a small flower blooming on the side of the road.

It was swaying weakly in the wind, yet it was still blooming with all its might.

Seeing that, I thought to myself.

"I, too, like this flower🌸,

even if it's small,

let me try what I can do"

From that day on, I started to challenge myself with things I wasn't good at, little by little.

Even if it didn't go well at first, as I kept at it without giving up, before I knew it, I was able to do it.

What I want to convey 🌈 A song for the beginning of your own journey

Our lives are a grand "Story".

And that "Story" begins with picking up just one small pebble.

On your journey, you will surely get lost or stop in your tracks many times.

But every time that happens, you can just look down at your feet and pick up a new pebble once again.

Come on, let's pick up that little pebble rolling at your feet.

Because it will surely become an irreplaceable treasure that plays the song of the beginning of your own unique journey🎶to the world.

Thank you for reading until the end.

If this article provided you with
"some kind of realization or hint"
or the courage to take a step "from here"

then I am truly fulfilled.

See you in the next article!

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