21/08/2024
A note-to-self from our Founder Natasha Fracchiolla
Iβve recently taken up running (more like jogging), and in my hardest moments on my run, Iβve learnt to look for benches. When I canβt move my exhausted body another inch, I look up and I scan ahead for a bench. An actual bench.
I tell myself π«πΆπ΄π΅ π΅π° π΅π©π’π΅ π£π¦π―π€π©. And together with my tired legs, we run just to that bench. And, when we get to that bench, we look up for another bench, and again I say: π«πΆπ΄π΅ π΅π° π΅π©π’π΅ π£π¦π―π€π©.
We raise up our strength, and we move - just to that bench. And guess what, we make it. Iβm learning that Motivation responds to βbenchesβ and reactivates itself with each little bench βmarkβ.
The key is to trick Motivation to believe that the journey of life is just a short series of benches, never a finish line. Thatβs how we make it. For some of us, just getting out of bed every morning, is a bench. And thatβs okay. Any bench is good enough to propel you β just one bench at a time.
So when it all gets too much, and the kids are driving you crazy, and you canβt pay the bills, and you canβt see through your tears, and your sick body has let you down, and the fear has come to choke you, and your breath is short, and there are way too many fires, and way too many boxes, and youβre all out of options, and youβre all out of love, and you think youβve lost your mind, and youβve definitely lost your faithβ¦
Just to that bench, okay. You can.
