Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
RESILIENCE
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
RESILIENCE
Whatever you are good at came to you partly through your own effort and partly as something given, however you account for the giving, and either way it is now in your keeping. To be entrusted with a thing is to be answerable for what becomes of it, and part of that is a plain fact: an unused capacity slowly stops being one. The light does not last indefinitely, in health, in circumstance, or in the season of a life that leaves you room to work.
Name the ability you have been letting sit idle. Give it a fixed hour this week rather than waiting for the stretch of free time that keeps not arriving.
How would you feel handing back what you were entrusted with?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.