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when the vision isn’t manifesting - by visakan veerasamy

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can we struggle cheerfully when things aren't going as we hoped?

When I started this Substack, I had a compelling romantic vision for what I wanted it to be. I wanted to write ~20 really beautiful “essays about everything”. They would be symphonic and resplendent, each one somehow implying the others, and everyone I admire would admire them in turn for their searing transcendent quality. I had it all worked out in my mind. It was going to be beautiful. But as I approach roughly 2 years of working on them, frustratingly, I have had to come to terms with the emerging reality that I’m probably not ready to manifest this particular vision particularly soon.…

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