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skilled navigators need to encounter rough seas to become what they are intended to be.@N13 Welcome back.
Nice sig. Fear is an enemy you overcome by attrition, not in one, all-encompassing decisive battle. Don't be discouraged by reversals or let them make you question the general principle. Just keep your head up and keep going.
I'm glad you know you're still you, yet not.
The Japanese have a saying,
Ichi-go Ichi-e (いちごいちえ)
“Ichi-go ichi-e speaks to the idea that no one encounter can ever be recreated: each moment and each convergence of time, space, light, mood, thought, and circumstance is singular and unrepeatable. As such, every encounter should be met with one’s full, attuned senses. Some encounters plant seeds that take root over time, while others change the course of one’s life in a single moment.”
I would add that it reminds us that we ourselves are ever changing, altered by experience, so even identical encounters are subjectively different. But you're still you and it is a good thing.
You just made my day. Just in time too.
