Tension doesn't get nearly the credit it deserves. Most of us assume it's a categorically bad thing and something we should avoid at all costs. But I've found tension, like most things, is not all good or all bad.
There's the tension we manufacture, worrying about what we have no control over. We get worked up over matters beyond our scope of influence. And as a result, our tension often manifests itself into fear which we end up projecting on to others.
But there's a good tension. The tension that pushes us to want a little more out of life. To get up earlier, to work a little harder, to travel more, listen more, and choose education over entertainment more.
There's a healthy friction at the root of all the things that pushes us to be a little more in the limited time that we have.
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