Should We Be Proud?

November 29

It’s a simple question, faced with success of your own making:

Should we be proud, or should they be embarrassed?

Is what we did truly a spectacular act, the kind of thing worth talking about, worth feeling about, or is the bar simply set so low that even the ordinary has become extra?

Maybe there’s a different pride we could feel, that of a job well done, and then—eventually—that of raising the bar for everyone.

Editor’s note—the November 28th reading failed to go out due to the editor being chronically not very smart and pressing the wrong buttons. The morning reading for November 28th is included below.

November 28—It Didn’t Work

At every beginning—keys in hand for the office building, starting the new job, committing to a new relationship—the voice in the back of your head may say:

There’s a reason this opportunity was here. A reason this person was previously single. A reason the job was open. Reminders that someone already tried and failed, possibly many times.

This could be a reason for pessimism. Hell, it could be reason to not even try in the first place.

Or it could be a gentle reminder that even if you fail, someone else may be brave enough to try again—someone just like you.

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