L&C

Now you know who you are

Akshay Kapur Avatar

When you accomplish what feels impossible at first – a mountain you believed you couldn’t climb but did – it expands the sense of who you are.

You now know you can climb impossible mountains.

It becomes a part of how you show up. 

Knowledge and knowing become subtly different, with lived experience outshining your belief in what’s impossible.

Yet you’re not meant to climb all mountains.

“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”

–Najwa Zebian

Sometimes you fail, a worthy signal to redirect your efforts. Or you learn something and keep going. Or even push through.

Not being able to complete the climb also becomes a part of you, and now your belief in what’s impossible is the next mountain.

That was the case all along.

And you were always whole throughout.

But now you know who you are.

Responses

  1. Kirsten Clacey

    Beautiful reflection Akshay!

    I’m struggling to grasp a piece of it. Could you expand a little more on what you meant here:
    “Not being able to complete the climb also becomes a part of you, and now your belief in what’s impossible is the next mountain.”

    The sense I got reading it was that we go from a place of assumed boundaries, to no boundaries, to known boundaries.

    Is this what you had in mind? And if so, what becomes possible once we’re in the latter state?/Why does this shift matter?

    Reply
  2. Akshay

    Sometimes we attach meaning to not making the climb; it means failure, or leads to doubt, or imposter syndrome. And that mindset becomes the next mountain.

    And as I noted in the post though, that was always the case, in the very beginning.

    But originally it was just a false worry made of thought.

    Trying and not being able to actually climb the mountain is much more real and as you said can indicate your boundaries and how to recalibrate. But thought often takes over, and must be overcome again.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

%d bloggers like this: