The Personal Improvement Construction Site
Look! Squirrel! #17
Commentary
We often turn self-improvement into a construction project. The mind assumes something is wrong with us and that enough planning, tracking, optimizing, and fixing will finally make us acceptable. Meanwhile, growth often happens more like a garden than an engineering project.
Squirrel treats growth like something that can be purchased, managed, and optimized, while Flower Capybara quietly embodies natural growth.
Question: What part of myself am I trying so hard to fix that might simply need room to grow?
Comments
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