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On Beginnings

We sat there, watching a friend in his first ever yoga class. This friend has years of experience (the yoga teachers experience is measured in decades, not hours - he said). The class was being held in a not very posh place. It was simple. The people who came to learn were not people you will find in Nike ads.

One way to think about it is to say
Why does someone with so much experience have to do this?
Does he have to go through this grind?
He deserves so much more.
He should have waited and launched himself at a bigger place.

The other way is to say
He is trying
He is brave
He is working on his mission
He has brought his passion alive in a small way

Thats when it struck me. Beginnings are small. All beginnings by their very nature are small. Take any dream, any business. The beginnings are almost always messy, untidy and even unsure.

But they are beginnings...
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