Whoever said that to you – f*ck them. Plain and simple. Don’t let anybody tell you what to do or which way to go. Be as loud as you want and as happy as you need to. Shine bright and leave those naysayers in the shadow. All they can do is complain and nag about how the world is too crowded and too busy and too loud and too fast. Sweetheart, if you want to make it happen in this world – you need to be even louder and even faster. Of course the grey mass will want to swallow you up and make you disappear in the pile of boring nobodies. Listen to your heart and be honest, this way if you do end up making a mistake, at least you know that you can blame it only on yourself and nobody else around. Just imagine how great it would feel to take the full responsibility for your life. To know that you don’t owe anything to anybody, that everything that you’ve achieved and accomplished is by your own hard work.
Very often I hear people saying that I’m just too different and that I don’t fit into any category. And it’s true, I’ve always been kind of an outsider. It made me suffer a great while and turn to books and philosophy looking for the answers – why me? Why can’t I just be normal? Why do I always need to go through unknown paces that no typical human being would ever go to? Why not just go with the flow? It took me a (relatively) long time to realize that it’s not a curse, but rather a unique gift. Nothing is more beautiful and rewarding than being able to think and to act in your own way. Authenticity is something so simple, yet many people lack it. Generally, it just says to be yourself. And that makes one to come back to the fundamental questions – who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? These simple questions, that great thinkers have been trying to answer for years and years before we were even born, are somehow ignored and overlooked by most of us. They feel too basic and mainstream, everyone’s heard of it. But only hearing is not sufficient enough, you have to do the actual work with yourself and your world. Everything about your perception changes once you establish those ground-building fundamental piles. To know who you are and what you are doing is freeing.
I never feel bad for sticking to my gut and speaking up my mind about a topic that feels interesting to me. I don’t waste a second worrying about what people will think of me, because with the time I’ve learned, that those same people are way too worried about what I might think about them. Once I step into a room, I’m no longer afraid if they are going to like me. I only care if I actually end up enjoying myself and whether it was not a waste of time. That goes without saying that we do live in a society and it’s important to be polite first and foremost, no one is going to care about your personality if you’re just plainly rude without any reason. What I’m talking about should be applied to your mentality and the way of thinking, how to become self-confident in your own skin and make the best out of the limited time that we get on this Earth. So yeah, I definitely enjoy my life and am very happy about the way things are going nowadays. I believe it can only get better from now on, because now I have a direction. And you know why? Because I never listened to people who said I was being too loud. All they were afraid of is that I’m going to outshine them. Which is fair enough for them, but none of the interest for me. My natural curiosity for life in general made me stick out of the mass and brought me this life I can only be thankful for. It might feel lonely in the beginning, but it’s way more fun and eventually you do end up meeting like-minded people and creating much more meaningful connections. Just imagine what kind of life you are withholding from yourself. Become jealous of your future self and enjoy every single step on the way to your goal.
Unf*ck the world, but f*ck the naysayers.
Love, Faja
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