Every little thing will be alright!

Everything will be alright!

I don't know about you, but I often hear this little phrase (from the use of the diminutive, you've probably already realized that this phrase irritates me):

_Everything will be alright!

Or

_In the end, it all works out! If it hasn't worked out yet, it's because it's not the end yet.

I heard this phrase countless times during my undergraduate studies. And it was a real fact. As long as it wasn't working out, meaning, passing a course, I hadn't yet reached the end of that course.

Therefore, for me, and what I had heard so many times, what mattered was ONLY the end. And that's how I lived my whole life.

My
whole
life.

The truth is that every time things "went wrong," I invented another plan to make everything work out: I'll plan, I'll organize, I'll do exactly the same thing as I did the other time.

But the result was always the same.

I hadn't changed what really mattered, which was the person who should act to make things work, in this case, me.

Therefore, the final result never changed. And I kept thinking it was something that was at the end.

As long as I don't care about the process and the real reason I'm doing a task, I'll never understand the path.

As long as I think "result" is what's at the end, I'll never be able to contemplate the pleasure and the hardships of learning.

As long as I think that right is binary, that is, yes or no, I will never improve within myself, my internal struggles.

Who was it that said that the means to an end don't matter?

The addiction to "getting it right in the end" destroys and harms the process of the journey. If we continue to think that right will only be at the end, we will never value the path.

I still plan! I love planning. BUT I also by adding fun to the steps.

Do I get the joy of the path every time? NO, not yet. But that is the path of learning that.