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“The Freedom of Losing” 

Daily writing prompt
Do you trust your instincts?

I’ve learned to trust my instincts.

Before, I didn’t — because I was always staring at the pessimism of my decisions, at the bad outcomes, at my insecurities, at the impossibility of anything positive happening for me. It was my programming — my loop — my consciousness ruling over my subconscious, the subconscious connected to the source.

Now I trust it more.

Not because I’ve perfected it, but because I’ve accepted defeat, age, loss, features, failure, and never winning. I’ve accepted that maybe I won’t win.

But not in a depressive way.

In a freeing way.

If everything could go wrong, then everything could also go right. And that thought makes me smile. Because it means I can relax and just say, “OK, well, let me try it. Who knows?”

More at-bats.

Ha.



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