The map in my hand glows with certainty, its arrow unwavering; yet every path I choose threatens to disembark me.
I walk anyway, trusting momentum over intuition.
The wind translates my intentions into a poem, but scatters my signals like static.
Still, something in the distance keeps calling—soft, patient, as if it knew I would arrive bruised but wiser.
When I finally reached the finish line, I realized something important. The journey had stripped away the noise. I once mistook that noise for a mission.
The destination was right all along; it was only the channel that needed changing.
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Wow! That’s fabulous, Reena. Love the last line and the message in it. ‘not to confuse the noise for a mission.’
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Others try to influence your mission and that is Noise.
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Nicely done, Reena! 🙂
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Thank you, Carol!
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Good Six and good reminder, Reena. “Noise”. Some self-created, the other, tolerated/welcomed even. The noise is the consummate distraction. Without it, think how much we might do, how far along the evolutionary path we’d be.
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A book “Noise” by Daniel Kahneman spells out how most of our data analytics and decision making is flawed due to “noise” both in data and thought processes.
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Noise can be so very distracting.
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True, and difficult to eliminate.
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This feels deeply familiar. Bruised, wiser, still walking….
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Is there an option, other than to keep walking?
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Conflict and a bit of struggle, bumping against the others’ limitations are often the necessary sanding & buffing for one’s true purpose. Thoughtful Six!
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Thank you, Liz!
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Good point not to confuse the noise for a mission.
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Glad you caught the gist of the piece. Thank you, Frank!
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“When I finally reached the finish line, I realized something important. The journey had stripped away the noise. I once mistook that noise for a mission.”
very insightful (wise to remember as we flounder on our journey convinced that the ‘Map is the Territory’.)
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Stripping away the noise is very, very tough since people around you who constitute the noise would like retention.
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“...since people around you who constitute the noise would like retention.“
Even worse! They tend to insist on it’s retention.
And that can make the process (of change) even more difficult, if not painful
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😂😂
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So much depth in your words, Reena. Love the finale.
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Thank you, Eugi!
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You’re welcome, Reena.
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A profound poem Reena 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Glad you liked it.
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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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