being a beginner

adulthood has a terrible tendency to flatten us; to train us to stay in the lanes we already know, box ourselves in by our competencies, believe there’s something embarrassing about stepping outside those bounds. the digital age compounds this with polished feeds of mastered recipes or musical pieces or sports wins to a point where we start to believe that being good at something is what makes it worthwhile. and yet that’s entirely wrong. life itself is a constant beginning. there’s a type of pr...