Stop waiting for someone to save you. A boy, a job, a parent. They aren’t coming. Stop living your life waiting for something great to happen. Make it happen. I’m feeling sad in this moment, and I’m not sure why. I have been feeling like I’m surrounded by great, accomplished, worldly people. And I’m a nobody among them all. All I see are my shortcomings, my flaws. Perhaps a great sense of imposter syndrome. I’ve never done anything great. Yet I am around great people. And it’s been highlighting all my shadows. I think I’ve lived so much of my life waiting for things to happen. And these people, the great ones among me, have gone after their dreams and lived their life to the fullest, or at least lived it. The older I get, the more I realize that nobody is coming to save me from myself. Or to build a life for me. Or to fix me or complete me. I’m the only one who can fulfill my dreams. If I even know what they are. The one thing I do know is that I am not meant to live an ordinary life. I can’t tell you why, but I have always felt that way. I am saving myself, and I encourage you to save yourself, too. Whether that’s taking a trip by yourself, or enrolling in a training class to further your education and career, or starting a YouTube channel. Who cares what anyone else thinks? You are the only person who must live with yourself 24/7, forever. And I would bet that most people aren’t happy with their own lives. Yes, you should have started ten years ago. Or you should not have quit ten years ago (talking about myself, too). But for some reason it had to happen to get you to where you are today. And today you are taking the first, fifth, or fiftieth step towards becoming your own sHERO. I believe in you.
- DOTM