The Last push

The most amount of push while swimming in breaststroke is the one you get on finishing one loop cleanly by connecting your legs. Leave it half and go for another stroke, thinking the hands or the kick of the legs are more important and you squander the benefit generated by the least amount of effort that comes from completing a loop cleanly.

The last push that allows you to cross the finish line, be it in a sprint or a project will be the one that you will benefit most from. 100m at the end of a sprint are more important than the 700 that preceded them in terms of the returns they give you. Not just material gains but immense learning and self-confidence and the potential to build on top of something that has already been achieved are the treasures of finishing. It is really an all or nothing gig most of the times.

Bee in a garden

Sometimes you just need to be in the garden and eat the fruits that it has to offer. Just by the mere fact of enjoying the fruit, you spread the seeds for more growth to happen.

Are we merely Memory

“History never repeats itself; man always does.” - Voltaire

Our identities are made up of the stories that we tell ourselves. In the present we are just a sapien, almost identical to the next sapien in the room. But we tell ourselves that we differ a lot from each other, that our race, our cast, our religion, our nationality, our class and n number of other things make us what we are. The things that we are born with or around us in our past, we recall them into the present and use them as a tool to belong. We might not even be affected with any of it, but still it allows us to more easily differentiate ourselves from our own kind and we rely on it. Not on the actions that we have done in life and not from our relationship with the present since that requires more work.

There is an identity of what you are, right here, right now. Its how you act and how you react, yes you might be influenced by the things from your past but you are seldom compelled by it.