the reward is the work not the goal

If your life feels stagnant or stuck. Like you feel trapped in a situation. I'm learning that means you're leaving the situation. It means you've entered the part of change that hurts the most. The part when you've gotten hurt and recognize it. Then you've cleaned it and it's preparing to heal. It's not healed, but it's healing. Because time is constant, there is no pause. No moment in life where nothing is happening. 

It's like I always tell people about people. EVERYONE changes, and is constantly changing. Now you're either actively changing for the better. By being mindful of your thoughts, actions, and words. Or you're passively getting worse, by allowing the current algorithm your brain runs on to continue to control you. Change takes effort…even think about your body healing. You have to provide your body with the nutrients, sleep, none touch or activities to the part damaged for it to heal. So your lack of action is action.

There is no pause in life. Time is an ocean, it's push and pull endless. A beautiful thing without observation and with it. It exists with or without. Which is why the reward of life is life. The reward of anything is the thing in that very moment. So if you feel stagnant or stuck or like things aren't moving for you. Remember they are, with or without your observation. Time is functioning how it should and your reward is not the things you want or work for or towards. Your reward is the moments. Like right now your reward is not the knowledge and insight you just gained reading this. Your reward is the act/time you read this. Your reward is right now and the aftermath is the result of your reward.