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You Can’t Step in the Same Stream Twice
The other day I was pondering my current life circumstances, when a friend sent me a quote. Perhaps I was deep in self-doubt about one thing or another and questioning my own abilities to achieve a goal, because the quote he chose is from Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived from circa 535 to 475 BC that goes like this…
You can’t step in the same stream twice; the stream has changed and you have changed.
Words of wisdom, to be sure. I know that when you read a book for the second time, even if it has only been days or weeks since your first reading it will be a very different experience. The book is the same, but you are not.
This brings me around to the topic of self-doubt and how you can use it to either help or hinder your life experience. We have all had moments of self-doubt throughout our lives, some more than others. It can be disguised as feelings of inadequacy in one area or another or thoughts that make us believe we are not enough or that we are less in some way than someone else. Self-doubt manifests as fear of the unknown or fear of failure. Both of these can make your life less than satisfactory and end up as regrets later in life.
My story of life as one who doubted I would ever achieve my goals and dreams was rooted in a childhood of poverty. I did not understand…
