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You get up, and da count no matter

@brightmauka Narrated by Freddie Rock 2:32 23 shots

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One thing wen no work out, but you still stay hea, and dat two things get da same weight dis morning. Da kitchen stay doing um's regular kine stuff. Get bread, o no more. Wat matter is da day wen show up right on time, no care wat, still available, jus like um do afta every one of dis kine days.

Da cold water faucet running till um come real cold. One crack on top da tile you wen look at plenty times awready. Somebody car outside no like start, den um start. Da clock on top da oven, off by nine minutes, jus like always.

Da part dat sting no come from da setback. Um come from da story you wen attach to um wen you was going down, da one dat say dis stay one pattern and da pattern is you. Dat story stay causing real damage cuz um turn one small ting into someting permanent about you, and you no can work on someting permanent, but you can definitely work on one event. Wat wen really happen stay smaller and mo useful den da story: one specific try wen meet one specific obstacle unda specific kine conditions, and most of dem you can name, some of dem you can change.

Tink about who get da better record hea. Somebody who wen stop four times get four detailed story about exactly wea da ground stay give way, and one person who neva even try get nothing. You wen treat dose stops like dey stay marks against you, but dey stay da only kine information anybody in yo shoes could evah collect. Da scar no stay damage, um stay one map, and um get so much detail dat no amount of planning from far away could evah make.

So today you goin start again, but half da size um was befo. Half da time, half da goal, half da ambition, cuz da version dat wen break was made fo one week dat no stay dis week. Small enough fo survive one bad day, dat's da only ting dat matter right now.

Nobody stay counting but you, and you been counting da wrong number. Da one dat matter is how fast you come back, and today da answer stay today. Dat one good answer. Always was.