19d (edited) • Entrepreneurship & Business
It's Not Easy but It's Simple
You think your plans didn’t work out?
Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore launched expecting a week-long mission. They came home nearly ten months later.
Let that satisfying little itinerary you mapped out for your life marinate on that for a second.
These two packed eight days' worth of patience and had to stretch it across 286. No popping out for a walk. No comfort food. No rebooking on a different flight. Just the black vacuum of space and a return date that kept not existing.
Meanwhile, most of us spiral when:
→ We hit traffic and act like the universe has personally wronged us.
→ A promotion takes a quarter longer than we expected.
→ One "no" lands in our inbox and suddenly the whole dream is dead.
Williams and Wilmore couldn't refresh a tracking page. They couldn't call customer service. They couldn't do anything except stay sharp, stay sane, and trust that a solution was being built beneath them. Literally.
And eventually, it was. They made it back.
There's something almost embarrassing about comparing our everyday frustrations to actual orbital limbo. But that's kind of the point.
Your delayed project isn't floating 250 miles above Earth with no exit door.
Plans will unravel. Timelines will lie to you. The thing you thought would take a week will take a year. That's not failure. That's just how it works.
If two people can hold it together through nine months of unplanned space, you can survive your detour.
via~ Austin Armstrong
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