"the garden teaches patience"
May. 15th, 2026 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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3weeks4dreamwidth! That means tomorrow must be the first day of Four Weeks For Dreamwidth! ♥
It has been wonderful celebrating with you all, reading our amazing posts and sharing lives and dreams and worries and wishes. I love all of you so much.
Today I was going to write something about challenges, and how fun they can be, and how whether we complete them in the way we originally envisioned or wanted to doesn't have to be the point. Sometimes the point is to do something other or more than what we would have done anyway. Sometimes the point is just to have fun!
So the point of a challenge doesn't have to be to finish it. Or to accomplish whatever the challenge is. Sometimes the point can be to participate in the challenge, or to plan for the challenge or imagine how you would do the challenge, or to learn about or observe the challenge. (Or to promote the challenge, cheer on the challengers, or take inspiration for some other activity.)
Relatedly, the 2026/27 Super Challenge at a language learners' forum is 100 books and 100 films in 20 months. I think I'll accept the challenge of doing the whole thing this year, to round out my writing and speaking goals. (By my calculations, the combination should only take four hours a day!)*
I mean, why not? Surely between not finishing and not starting, not starting would be the greater regret.
*(Also I've adjusted the challenge to be 9000 minutes of reading instead of 5000 pages read, and will follow the already adapted "100 films = 9000 minutes of watching" rule, which goes well with my non-lingopie version of evildea's lingopie challenge.)
3weeks4dreamwidth! That means tomorrow must be the first day of Four Weeks For Dreamwidth! ♥ It has been wonderful celebrating with you all, reading our amazing posts and sharing lives and dreams and worries and wishes. I love all of you so much.
Today I was going to write something about challenges, and how fun they can be, and how whether we complete them in the way we originally envisioned or wanted to doesn't have to be the point. Sometimes the point is to do something other or more than what we would have done anyway. Sometimes the point is just to have fun!
So the point of a challenge doesn't have to be to finish it. Or to accomplish whatever the challenge is. Sometimes the point can be to participate in the challenge, or to plan for the challenge or imagine how you would do the challenge, or to learn about or observe the challenge. (Or to promote the challenge, cheer on the challengers, or take inspiration for some other activity.)
Relatedly, the 2026/27 Super Challenge at a language learners' forum is 100 books and 100 films in 20 months. I think I'll accept the challenge of doing the whole thing this year, to round out my writing and speaking goals. (By my calculations, the combination should only take four hours a day!)*
I mean, why not? Surely between not finishing and not starting, not starting would be the greater regret.
*(Also I've adjusted the challenge to be 9000 minutes of reading instead of 5000 pages read, and will follow the already adapted "100 films = 9000 minutes of watching" rule, which goes well with my non-lingopie version of evildea's lingopie challenge.)
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