IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING PROGRESS

Luyanda Mbatha
2 min readOct 3, 2022

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Progress will always be a process, but the process will not always be progress Jennifer Barrios Tettay. But that’s part of life. And the best way to deal with that is to, first, accept it and then do whatever the valuable fuck you want to do.

Have you ever felt like or do you always feel like every shit you do goes unnoticed and unacknowledged to the point where you feel like what you do is worthless and you need an expeditious transformation? I do, and I guess we all, sometimes, do.

This is not to blame anyone, ever! Including yourself. But this is to survey through yourself and listen to that internal voice that you often defy and then observe the external like a spectator. Surely, you’ll get the answer.

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The process is something that makes us generate our narratives into something we relish or fucking despise. But most often those judgments are the results of that process. The process can be something that leads to breakthroughs or deterioration. We navigate the process, or ourselves through it, and the navigation system isn’t at first sweet and cheesy, it is laborious but advantageous for your progress.

Some people work on themselves for progress; some (assholes) work on themselves for validation. When you are busy working on yourself to progress and be better, don’t strive to be fucking validated and get approval from others. The progress isn’t and it won’t be easy (and it shouldn’t be), so get your shit together and strive to be a stronger badass.

There will come a time where you think of quitting or maybe it came before, but it will come. That’s normal, that is the process of progress. That is where you have to calm the fuck down, find another way to execute it, not the easier or the best one, embrace and enjoy it.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress”~ Fredrick Douglass.

Find out what you what you actually want to struggle for, even if you are not good at it, break it into small pieces, and then carry it into execution. You must fucking love and enjoy the process. Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, said, “The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” What people consider difficult, to you it should feels like a play.

If you are really good at something and society needs that, never do it for free, ever.

Thank you for reading. I highly appreciate your support.

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Luyanda Mbatha

Fear and doubt never produced any outcomes ever since I was here on this planet.