why you feel behind in life
Now, every unfinished attempt exists next to someone else’s polished portfolio. We scroll through a feed of fully formed work and mistake it for the natural state of creation. Everyone else seems complete, while you’re the only one still becoming .
Sabine Carys • Your taste will mature faster than your skill
“Many people (by which I meant me) seem to feel as if they start off each morning in a kind of "productivity debt", which they must struggle to pay off through the day, in hopes of reaching a zero balance by the time evening comes. Few things feel more basic to my experience of adulthood than this vague sense that I'm falling behind, and need to
... See moreI started to reflect on my own trajectory with fear that it didn’t mirror my ambition, work ethic, or deep care about the role of work in a life. Had I pointed my ambition in the wrong direction? What did I have to show for all my effort? Had I made some irreversible, unforced error with my career? How much money had I left on the table? Would the... See more