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In all likelihood, and for most of us, the thing that is most exercising your mind today is not the same thing that was exercising your mind a week ago; maybe the overriding problem or issue or situation that you're dealing with is still there but on a day to day basis, the challenge is different every single day.
We yearn for a world where we can get to where the challenge stays the same, where it rolls on and on, predictably, almost boringly, tick tick tick onto the next day, but the problem there is that the world just disappears behind us, the days vanish, the years evaporate and all of a sudden, we're much further down the road than we thought we were.
The challenges that we encounter on a day-to-day basis, the ones that are different this week than last week, they're more of the flags in the sand, more of the markers that we get to look back on to see how far we've come and where we've been and also, and almost inevitably in most cases the same sort of challenge this week is easier to manage than the one you had which was almost identical, a year or 5 or 10 ago.
Experience makes us stronger and better and gives us tools to adapt to these things in an easier way so that they don't put a missile which explodes into the middle of your life like they did before but an intellectual problem to overcome as we move on to the next thing to try to get to exactly where we're going wherever that might actually be.
Blog Post Number - 4140