When the Ongoing Work Gets Tedious Is It All Still Worthwhile?

Despite the ongoing work feeling never-ending and tedious — yes, it’s still worth it.

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Who I am today has taken me a long time to forge.

What’s more, there’ve been numerous false starts, mistakes, errors, and total fuck-ups. Yet here I am — who, what, how, and why I desire to be.

But that’s not the end of the story. It’s never the end of the story until literally, the end — as in the death of the current meatsuit (body). Life is an ongoing work in progress.

No matter what you’re doing — letting life live you, curling up in a ball and lamenting life/awaiting death, or striving to take the wheel and do the driving — life goes on.

There is never One True Way, utter and total perfection, nor reaching the ultimate height and having nowhere else to go. Nope, there’s always ongoing work — for as long as we live.

Some days feel really tedious. The process of living can be challenging to variable degrees depending on people, places, circumstances, environment, and more. Often there’s no single thing you can put your finger on — you just feel off and wrong.

Just to add insult to injury — something that worked yesterday might not work today…