Other hand

A couple of posts ago I wrote about this. But there is an "other hand" to it, I've noticed. I sometimes catch myself thinking that there is not enough time to do it all. Even to do half of it. Or just part of this half. I start to realise that if one wants be good at something, one has to work on it. Work on it a lot. One should actually devote oneself to it, in all possible ways. And I catch myself thinking that one life is not enough to do it all at once. 

There are so many goals to achieve, so many journeys to set off on, so many people to meet, so many lessons to learn, so many things to change and so many experiences to gain that one is not able to do it all, it seems to me sometimes. I want to be a translator, for instance. That means I actually have to (well, I want to) learn at least three languages perfectly. I'm excluding French here and including Polish. Yes, Polish, my mother tounge, even it has to be developed and worked on, as it's so complex, tangled and difficult that it still keeps surprising me (I wonder, will there be a time in my life when a language won't be surprising me anymore?). And just imagine the amount of work one has to do with only one language, let alone a couple of them. And what about other things? Dancing, writing, studying, learning... If I wanted to be a very professional belly dancer I would have to have trainings every day for a couple of hours, meaning I would have to devote myself to it, give up education or work. A lecturer once told me that if somebody wants to learn a language perfectly, one has to do anything connected with it for at least half an hour per day. And it applies to everything. Maybe it doesn't seem a lot, 30 minutes, but could you find the will, the strength and most importantly, the time for it literally every day?

Of course, when I put away all these "it seems to mes", the voice of reason remains and tells me that I shouldn't be so greedy and take it easy, what I, of course, do because I'm not going to torture myself. ;-) 

Maybe we can be truly perfect at just one thing? Thanks to dedication and working just on this one thing? That's what I hear quite often.

Even if it so - fine. I don't have to be perfect at everything I work on, I guess. I can be perfect (with "perfect" I mean "making the most of my potential") at one thing (I haven't yet decided whether it will be a writer or a translator but anyway the former can actually combine with the latter so maybe I will manage to be 2 in 1 like a promotional product in a supermarket) and I will simply let myself enjoy the rest of them, for the mere sake of enjoying.