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So you may have noticed that there’s been much less writing and opinionating on this here inspiration feed than there used to be. There are a lot of reasons for the lull, but they’re not as remarkable as the way we reacted to it. We beat ourselves up for not doing more, started feeling like suckers and losers and impotent dullards.

That was pointless.

Now that the lull has passed, we think we learned something. We realized that we forgot to listen to an old piece of wisdom we trot out every now and again: Everything happens in seasons.

Everything—moods, business, ideas, even happiness—comes in seasons and swells. It all waxes and wanes, ebbs and flows, Jekylls and Hydes. And you can’t force it. You can’t freak out. That just makes things harder. So ride that shit out, and enjoy what the day brings you, even if it’s a little rain. Use the slow seasons to rest, to go easy on yourself. Do a project that’s just for fun, work shorter days, and give more time to your friends and family. Get drunk on a Wednesday afternoon. Fuck it. Really. Everything is just as it should be.

05/08/08 by josh kamler

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