After attending a conference, lecture, workshop … After reading certain articles or watching certain talks online, usually two things happen:
I am inspired.
And someone who attended the exact same event as I did, or read or listened to the exact same words – is not.
And I am wondering … why is that? Why not let it happen as often as possible? I mean, why miss out on so much?
These perspectives you didn’t have yet?
These questions you didn’t ask before?
These search fields you didn’t examine yet?
These people you haven’t known before?
These discussions you haven’t followed before?
These lessons you haven’t learned yet?
These dots you haven’t connected before?
These surprises you haven’t experienced yet?
These possibilities you didn’t know existed before?
Of course, a lot of these journeys lead to dead ends. But for all of them a proverb couldn’t be more true:
These journeys are their own reward.