Burn Everything You Know

I've been scratching my head trying to figure out a proper metaphor for what I'm about to discuss, but it's proven pretty difficult. So I'm going to make up a nonsensicalness (real word) one for this post. Think of it as my version of Alice in Wonderland, with symbolism. Eventually I'll provide a point I guess, maybe it'll make sense; more likely it will too be nonsensical(ness).

You're standing before many doors, each door is a journey with a castle at the end; you pick a door. Now you're on your journey and all things are possible. Along the way, you change as an adventurer. This particular journey you're on requires you to become a strong climber, expert gun-smith and a beautiful singer. The people on this journey appreciate your climbing skills, your ability to make a gun and your voice, the journey is going well. Then suddenly the walls of your journey collapse around you and you are stuck. There is no way to reach the castle, what can you do?

You return to the doors to choose a new journey; equipped with your climbing, gun-smithing and golden voice. It's difficult to do, but you pick another door. This journey is harsher than the first one, when you run into trouble, you try to use your climbing, but find yourself drowning. You try another door, running into trouble you decide to make a gun, but you're shooting at ghosts. You try another door and try to soothe the locals with song, but they are deaf. So far your other journeys are pretty damn horrible.

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So what do you do? Well you might start by not relying on what your first journey taught you. Sure it's nice to be able to climb, sing and kill stuff with bullets, but perhaps you're too advanced in that journey to learn from new journeys. So stop, drop these skills or at least put them aside and try something new. When you get to your first challenge on a new journey, try something new and you might pick up a new skill.

Listen to the above as you contemplate the rest.

So what am I getting at? Well I'm at a point in my life where my mindset was on certain aspects of life (the journey), I was far along into an adventure (relationship). Now that I have to take on new adventures, I'm putting so much pressure on myself because of the mindset I was in on the last adventure. It's time to drop my armor, unlearn my skills, and take things at face value. There is no importance, there are no dire consequences and no one is putting pressure on me but myself.

It's a journey after all...the longer we take to get there, the more of an adventure we've had.