I'm new here. I've heard about GYE for years, and I finally came to the site. It's amazing and, candidly, a little overwhelming for a newcomer. Anyway, I noticed that by many user names is the current streak of days, and this got me thinking. Does a slip-up really knock everything down as though it never existed? If we look at any good stock, or look at Bitcoin over the last 12 months, the charts show massive upward trends with occasional dips on the way up. If someone has a 10 day streak or 100 day streak, they might G-d forbid feel like a failure to breaking the streak, and then they have to start from 0. They obviously need to address the break, why it happened, etc. But it doesn't mean that the prior 10 days, 100 days, or 2 years were for nothing. What I'm saying is that regarding accountability charts/streaks, it would be nice to acknowledge a fall without starting over and by paying homage to the streak thus far. This way, a fall can be seen as an aberration ("that's not me...the streak until now is really me"). This is just a thought and, being new to GYE, I'm not sure whether this is a proper hashgafa.

You are super right. When we fall after a streak we aren't starting over again. I think everyone here agrees to that.

stopsurvivingstartliving wrote on 29 Nov 2024 00:33:

Never a truer word spoken

A streak is a trophy, it's shiny and impressive, something you can walk around proudly displaying to yourself and your friends. But the work involved in each and every streak is your essence. An end of a streak doesn't negate your essence at all, how you respond to it is what shows you how far you've come and what you're really all about.

menuchashanefesh9 wrote on 29 Nov 2024 01:34:

Gold!
Especially the bolded part...