The Only Place You Can Start

You can't start from where you want to be. 

You have to start from where you are.

It's a small point and yet huge. People get lost in the wilderness between desire and action. Sometimes this is a good thing (and marriages are saved), but sometimes this is a bad thing (and lives are lost).

But this I know for certain: if we were never hungry, it's doubtful that we would have learned to cook.

So, be hungry.

Be aggressive. Be wondering and searching and trying and failing.

But all of this searching, all of this longing, this yearning, this pursuing — it all starts from where you are right now.

And then you move and you get to the next spot, like hopping from rock to rock in a stream of rushing water. Sometimes your foot will slip off a mossy stone and your boot will fill with the icy water, shocking you and, for a moment, really scaring you. But then you will pick your foot out of that rushing water, and land it on the next rock ... and you will go on, from exactly where you are, in hurried pursuit of where you want to be.

But first, you step forward from where you are, not from where you would like to be.

So do that.