When we find inspiration

I find it interesting the way our minds work, invariably the 5 minutes of inspiration we need to totally rock the world and transform our lives, will come at the end of hours, weeks, months, or even years' worth of floundering, frivolity, false starts, and seeming hopelessness.

Yet when the dream comes true and we glance over our shoulder, we see that those 5 minutes were made possible because of everything that led up to them and that we never needed to be so critical of ourselves or the time it was taking.

Don't despair, we sometimes have to make mistakes, stumble around, flounder and make many false starts to know what the right thing to do is for ourselves and others. Remember, we are not perfect, we are human and I believe that we can learn from our mistakes and grow into the person we see in our mind's eye. We may make one mistake, but once the lesson is learned we usually don't make the same mistake again. Life is not perfect, but as my friends say it is better than the alternative. 

Embrace the fact that as you have progressed through life, you have made mistakes, hopefully, you have corrected your mistakes, if you haven't now is the time to correct them. It is only too late to move in the right direction when you are dead, or cannot speak for yourself.