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| Sabre Wulf, by Ultimate. Spectrum games were notoriously basic and programmers had to use their imaginations to make the visuals come to life. It definitely worked. |
We all have our limitations. There's a statement, but it is true if you look into the heart of you. Accepting that which we have and learning to do without leads us to a better place. The good thing about not knowing everything, which I know some people find hard to admit, is that you can use your imagination to fill in the blanks.
The thing with doing what you have been taught to do is that you are doing the exact thing that someone else did; they probably learnt that from someone else and so on. All down the line a particular way of doing things has not evolved. I am terrible at reading instructions; they are boring, nonsensical, and written in such small writing or stupid pictures that my brain strains just to acknowledge the information. I understand that we need instructions sometimes, but that is usually because someone has made the thing so damn confusing in the first place!
Trial and error is a method that I find quite rewarding; it puts you in harmony with the universe. For instance, I am an interested but not very attentive gardener. I love planting things and letting nature take over and do it's job. I have killed many plants through doing the wrong thing and have learnt from that and moved on. I trust now that I have some idea of what I am doing and the bees that swarm to my lavenders and flowers are, for me, testament to that. The universe gives me the answer.
It is about getting up and going again. You fail at something, you get up and go again and you use your imagination to guide you through the part that you failed at. We are sadly in a society that does not accept failure of any kind, yet, without failure we would not have to advances we have had, and we would not appreciate the successes. If you are a football team who always scores goals, after a while, you won't find scoring a goal that exciting. Yet think of the fist-pumping excitement you see on the television when a sports team scores a goal or point and they are not used to it; the passion; the drive; the determination to repeat that. Wonderful.
You know, life could be like a video game. Here you are in life and sometimes you get multiple chances to achieve something. You lose, so you restart and go again; you lose again but get a little further, you go back to the start and go again. You repeat this until you reach a point where you can save your progress and go from that point. It happens, everything you have done in your life has led to that point. You save, you rest, you pause, you praise, you give yourself a grin - and then you go again.
I think that it is important to acknowledge and accept the things you can do and the things you can't, know your limitations. It is never too late to learn, whatever it is you might wish to learn.
during this lockdown I have been picking up my guitar for the first time in years, after already being not so good at it and feeling disheartened, and I have a few songs under my belt. i have started to tinkle at the piano, and it is fun. Learning is fun; being true to yourself is fun, understanding what you are capable of is also fun. You may surprise yourself and be capable of more things than you thought.
Lose the fear and feed your imagination.
