A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 16
“Problems come few and far between in the life of a proactive person.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 16
The walk-through
Most problems are not ambushes. Looking over his own life, Innocent found that they trace back to a lack of preparation, a failure to think ahead, or simply not noticing — which is why yesterday’s problems don’t have to follow you into today.
So he gives them time on purpose: long stretches of reflection, “thinking (not worrying) about my problems”, which lowers the odds of the kinds that linger, repeat, or arrive unforeseen. Being proactive doesn’t make problems vanish. It makes them rare.
People advise him against dwelling on them, hoping to spare him the stress, and he finds the reverse is true. What wears on him is not the problems themselves but “not having enough time to think about my problems, to avoid, solve or mitigate them” — and to take the lesson out of them and close them properly.
AI-composed from Innocent's text, reviewed and refined by Innocent.
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