They always say time changes things, but oftentimes you actually have to choose to change them yourself.Maybe it’s the life lessons I was forced to learn the hard way, or the toll of loss and failure I had recently endured, but fifteen years ago in the midst of a panic attack on my 27th birthday, I had to admit to myself right then and there that the youthful world of possibility I once felt now seemed dead inside me.
I wanted to feel light and free and ambitious and passionate again, but I didn’t know how. Luckily my wise mother, who has always been a true lifesaver, gave me some good advice.
She told me that she could still see a positive, passionate young man inside of me, but that I needed to do some soul searching to reconnect myself to him.As I attempted to follow my mother’s advice, I remembered that I used to have two quotes written on post-it notes hanging on my bedroom wall when I was a kid:So I wrote those two quotes down again, just as I remembered them, and posted them up on the wall over my nightstand.
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