Inconsistently consistent

Even as I’m trying to be consistent every day with my code commits on Github, I’m trying to also hold that opposing nuance in my head, that even in consistency there needs to be some inconsistency.

Because we’re only human.

Our best looks different every day, every week, every month.

My best commit days can be over 50 commits, and I can still keep going.
My worst days are just 1 commit, and that’s already like squeezing water out of a rock.

If my 1111-day writing streak had taught me anything, is that the streak isn’t one straight line trending up, but a series of jagged peaks and valleys. Writing 1111 days never got easier, even though I had years of daily practice. So I think, with code commit, it won’t get easier too.

Accepting that is key.

Knowing that it won’t be consistently perfect, I don’t have to try to make it perfect.

And just embrace the flow when I’m being pulled along downhill.
And just give in to the pain when I’m having to push uphill.

So long as the general trajectory is up, the inconsistency doesn’t matter. (This is where having goals and some form of measurement/tracking is important)

It’s not a failing.
It’s what makes us human.

Inconsistently consistent.