one small step

With the previous post in mind I’d like you to think about something.

There is an event in Luxemburg that is called ‘the procession of Echternach’.
It is known for the way how people walk it: two steps forward, and one step back.  

Don’t you sometimes feel the same way? With every progress you make, something pushes you back. At times it just seems too hard to keep on walking against the currents. We’ve all been there. Some give up, while others gnash their teeth and try to keep up the pace.
In order to keep going, we all look up to our fellow people, to role models, characters in a book or a movie,  even to gods. We see their accomplishments and think ‘wow, if only I could be like this’.
 But what we rarely see is their struggle. They too walk against the current. And few people know how many years it took them to get that one single accomplishment done. There are many roads to success. But no matter which one you chose, or how long it will take, it always starts with a single step. And remember: it’s usually just before the finish line that exhaustion and doubts start to act op. So go on, give it just another go. You are almost there.   And even if you don’t notice it. Every small step forwards does help.