Ever had that feeling where you really enjoy something, but after a while it becomes a little over-whelming? Rushing to be put in charge of something feels exactly like that.
It’s like being a kid and trying on your mum’s shoes for the first time. For those first ten minutes you’re enjoying the fact that you feel grown-up, that you’re ‘big’ enough to wear it. You’re having fun toddling around, and pretending to boss around your baby sister. But then afterwards you feel the struggle of keeping up with those big footsteps, having to take huge strides when all you’ve been used to are your tiny babysteps. It’s hard.
It’s then that you realise that growing up is a gradual process. You learn that by taking those baby steps at the beginning, you had learnt how to walk faster, and then to run, and eventually you’re running so fast you’re flying.
And it’s by doing everything in that gradual process that you’ve learnt to keep that height when you’re flying; keeping yourself steady up in the air, rather than crashing and burning to the ground. You learn that there’s no rush to learning. Everything will happen in its own natural process. And that if you believe in that, then you’ll be the one soaring in the skies.
So, lesson for today: don’t rush to take on responsibility when you’re not ready. Learn the steps, and eventually you’ll fly.
