If you repeat senior year of high school over and over...you’re sure to perfect it…you’ll keep getting better test scores, you’ll figure out the funnest route to the next class, you’ll memorize which days you should pack a lunch instead of hot lunch, you’ll optimize your locker space, you’ll learn how to maximize hall pass time, you’ll learn how to secure a spot on the homecoming court in the fall and in the spring be one half of the hottest couple at prom. Sounds like a lot of fun.
But the point of senior year isn’t to get it all right.
The point is to move on.
When we’ve done the hard work of getting pretty good at something, it’s easy to want to keep playing in that sandbox for a while.
The mechanic who takes ten years to restore the car.
The chef who hasn’t thrown a dinner party because the dish hasn’t been perfected.
And most certainly…the artist, songwriter, producer, musician who won’t stop tinkering with the song and just release it.
