"But my lesson is
this: I don’t give a shit.
You cannot let a
fear of failure, or a fear of comparison, or a fear of judgment stop you from
doing what’s going to make you great.
You cannot
succeed without this risk of failure, you cannot have a voice without the risk
of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss. You must go out
and you must take these risks.
And people will tell you to do what makes you
happy but a lot of this has been hard work and I’m not always happy. And I don’t
think you should do just what makes you happy, I think you should do what makes
you great.
Do what’s
uncomfortable, and scary, and hard, but pays off in the long run. Be willing to
fail. Let yourself fail. Fail in the way and the place where you would want to
fail. Fail, pick yourself up and fail again. Because without this struggle,
what is your success anyway?
As best we know
we have one life. In it, you have to trust your own voice, your own ideas, your
honesty, your vulnerability and through this you will find your way.
You do not have
to be fearless, just don’t let fear stop you.
Live like this
as best you can and I guarantee you will look back on a life well lived."
