@dandelion
When I moved to a new country I thought I was leaving the hard parts behind and that life would get easier but it didn’t and the distance from my family only made things heavier!💛
In the middle of all that I found poker🥹
And somehow I found a community
Burrfrens and became a part of it.
Slowly I learned the game and along the way, I met people who are now some of my closest online friends🫂✨
When I first started playing poker, I lost a lot! Sometimes I felt like I didn’t understand anything😬
It would’ve been easy to quit!
But I didn’t!
I kept playing, kept learning, kept showing up✨
In the beginning, I was unsure of myself.
I worried that my level of play might bother others, especially players who were much more experienced and confident.
But I still tried my best to make fewer mistakes and keep learning because being there genuinely made me feel better!
I kept playing, week after week.
Even outside the group, I practiced more with friends✨
Then one day a member of the club sent me a screenshot of one of my hands and reacted with surprise🥺
Maybe it wasn’t meant in a bad way but I took it to heart😔
It made me feel like maybe I wasn’t good enough yet!
like maybe I didn’t really belong there for a moment I wanted to quit!
But I didn’t!
My friends reminded me that no one starts perfect and that learning takes time so I stayed not because it was easy but because I loved it and I was willing to go through the hard moments to grow🌱
I’m still at the beginning of my journey!
I’m not a perfect player but I’m someone who keeps trying to be better every day✨
And that’s when I truly understood
tenacity isn’t about winning right away, it’s about not giving up when things feel hard, uncertain or even a little painful❤️🩹
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop”
-Confucius