27 June · You don't have to despise the time you gave.

Anger

I am angry with myself for spending years on something that didn't work.

A little room to breathe.27 June

Anger

“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”

George Eliot — Middlemarch, 1871–1872Chapter Xxii.Read the source ↗

You don't have to despise the time you gave.

An outcome that disappointed you can make every earlier effort look foolish. The hopes, information, and circumstances that shaped those years were real; you can decide what to do differently without treating the person who kept trying as someone beneath your care.

ONE SMALL STEP

Name one reason your choice made sense to you at the time.

A little room to breathe.27 June

A spark of light in your day.

A spark
of light
in your day.