The most important things I have ever needed to hear, I didn't write.

Early morning. Someone else's kitchen. A documentary called Free Solo playing on the TV across the room.

Alex Honnold-a man who climbs thousands of feet of sheer rock with no rope, no harness, and apparently no interest in a plan B, was standing at the section of El Capitan that had beaten him before.

The part that scared him enough to quit.

He was trying to find his way through it this time. To get comfortable with what terrified him.

He looked into the camera and said:

“Instead of suppressing my fear, I try to expand my comfort zone.”

I set the creamer down.

Rewound it.

Grabbed the pen and paper sitting next to me.

Wrote it down before it could get away.

That was 2020.

It's still with me.

Living inside a note on my phone with 78 others just like it.

𓂀Being IS the MAGIC – Wandering Waykeeper – Beckett

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