Development is everywhere
I listened to an interview with the Swedish artist Laleh. They were talking about her song Framåt (“forward” in Swedish) and the forward movement of life.
They got into the topic of mistakes and how they’re part of that movement. We live and we learn - it’s all evolution.
Laleh summed it up perfectly:
We can’t develop backwards.
Easy to forget when everything feels like a dead end. Looking back a few days or weeks, that sense of failure might even seem justified.
But is it really true from a broader perspective? Last year, three years ago... or five?
We’ll probably find that we’ve come a long way on our journey. That we’ve achieved things we once thought we couldn’t.
All experiences, “good” or “bad”, have made this possible.
Development is our companion. It’s in our DNA. It’s everywhere.