i already posted this on tiktok, but i thought i might post it here too.
an analogy that i came up with (but there's a good chance i am not the first one who had this idea), and that i personally think helps with grasping the whole concept of "you shifted the second you decided to, the 3d doesn't matter" (i hope this makes sense to anyone else)
okay, let’s set the scene… you’re passenger in a car on your way to a vacation someplace you can’t wait to get to. you set the intention to go there, you actually started the journey, but you ain’t quite there yet, still seeing familiar stuff when you look out of the car window.
now you might be impatient to finally get there, and you REALLY want to be there already, cause you’ve been in the car for so long and it kinda sucks.
but you ARE in that car, you ARE on your way, and you know you will get there, and in that moment you’re not any less the person who is on vacation, since the journey is kinda a part of it, but you arriving there is guaranteed, it’s already booked and payed for and all yours.
and no matter how impatient you get, you would never doubt that you booked that vacation and you are that person who has that going for them. now, there might be a traffic jam, which is super annoying, but even then you would not at all doubt that you are that person on vacation.
and then maybe eventually there comes the part where you realize, yes, exactly, you ARE on vacation, and you ain’t even driving yourself, you just made the decision where to go to, and the rest is being taken care of, so there’s really nothing for you to worry about.
so maybe you start enjoying the view, and let yourself be excited about being on vacation, knowing it’s finally happening and you will be at your destination soon. or maybe you start listening to music or do something else you’re in the mood for.
in other words: you start having fun, cause as the passenger you don’t even have to focus on the road or do anything, and time passes much quicker when you’re having a good time, so before you know it, you reach your destination.
now that you’re there, all the negative feelings, you might’ve had at some point during the drive, seem pretty silly, but they also didn’t stop you from getting there. maybe they made the journey feel less enjoyable or slower, but they didn’t actually slow down anything, they just made it feel that way.
the only work you had to do was getting ready and start. arriving however requires no effort. there’s absolutely nothing you need to do in order to make that arrival happening :]
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