The closest star to Earth (besides the sun) is Proxima Centauri, which is 4.24 light-years away. Light traveling at 299,792,458 meters per second takes 4.24 years to reach Earth.
The furthest star we can see with the naked eye is V762 Cas, part of the Cassiopeia constellation. It is a staggering 16,000 light-years away. When you see V762 Cas, you witness the product of light generated 16,000 years ago. It traveled that far, that long, to reach your retina.
We experience the delayed product of a process that happened long ago. It’s only arriving now.
Our excellence works the same way. The excellence we see now happened a while ago. It’s only arriving now. The excellence we see in results is only a sliver of the excellence required to earn those results.
The excellence we see in results is the delayed light of the effort it took to generate those results. And all the time it took for those results to arrive.
The light you see in the stars and the warmth you feel from the sun is the result of energy and activity from the past. In some cases, the distant past. The product of that energy and activity — light and heat — is only reaching us now.
Much of our life experience is the delayed impact of past energy and activity. Your current experiences are a delayed reflection of past decisions, actions, and consequences.
The impact of your decisions, actions, and consequences will not fully reveal itself for a while—in some cases, a long while.
Light from the stars requires time to travel the distance from its source to us. The impact of our actions operates by the same principle. Our decisions and actions need time to deliver their effects.
Eventually, we experience the delayed product of our decisions and actions, the ones we made long ago and the ones we’re making now.
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