Always Go For It

Always go for it. Live boldly, make decisions. Say yes, take on opportunity, talk back to self-doubt. But if things aren’t going well, try to have a different experience each time. For example, some people seem afflicted to get into relationship after relationship with similar poor outcomes. Apart from internal work and introspection, try bold new choices that feel unfamiliar. Always go for the alpha male? Try someone calm and sweet.

Anxiety, depression, mental health symptoms can make us withdrawl, isolate, curl up in a ball alone with tv/alcohol/ice cream/videogames/whatever. Who am I to say this is not a purposeful life? But on some level, I suspect it is not, because I too have lived it and it gets old. It’s funny how we can know something is bad, but it’s still so hard to stop doing it. The antidote, I think, is to do something that scares you instead. The fear can turn into exhilaration, and you might find yourself with a new hobby or friend that breathes life into your.. life. Existence.

They talk about, “Main character energy,” and “Romanticizing your life.” I’m glad people (especially women) are thinking this way. You are precious and valuable no matter what you have or haven’t done up to this point. Life can change in an instant. You’re precious because of who you are. No one else is having your exact life experience or has your exact set of variables in this geographical place and chronological time in history. Humans are like crypto currency locked into the block chain the moment they are born: a unique entity that is recognized as having value based on its having happened. Believe it, act like it, and go for it.