The loudest alarm is the one you set and ignored.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
The alarms that cost you most are the ones you set yourself and then taught yourself to sleep through. Something in you knew: about the subject slipping, the friendship going cold, the habit growing. You arranged the warning and then got practiced at hitting snooze, and now the noise is louder because it has been ringing for months.
Say out loud which alarm you have been ignoring. Do the first small thing about it this week, the email, the honest sentence, the appointment, before the volume does the deciding for you.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which warning did you set for yourself and then ignore?
MORE IN PARADOX, METAPHOR & FOOD FOR THOUGHT
- Fishermen know the fish rest behind rocks, out of the current. Even strong swimmers need somewhere to pause.
- The Mississippi carries soil from about thirty states to the Gulf. You’re carrying pieces of everyone who raised you.
- People check themselves in elevator mirrors like it’s the last chance before the world sees them. It never is.
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