No matter what you do, you will always get criticized, get used to it, embrace it, laugh at it, and continue to try your best. You think about all there is to life and there is money and the obsession for pleasure as a distraction for what we fear, a distraction for what we don’t want to think about. There is the desire to stand out, be celebrated, and be acknowledged as great. At the end of the day the only mind you will EVER be able to read... is your own. So anything another person says to you... anything... it might be true or not. But that doesn’t matter. They mock you? Laugh and mock yourself along with them. What matters is what drives you to live. I have told a couple of my friends that literally the purpose I invented for myself is first to write, second to smile/laugh and look at people without defining them, to look at them as if they are the best person ever. Why? Because I know how it hurts to feel like there is something “wrong” with us and therefore I decided to devote my life to do anything I could to help people not feel that way. “Don’t be too nice! The con artists are out there!” I know. But you never know whose life you can impact, you never know what small action of yours can inspire someone for a lifetime. I’ve been inspired by many people that have planted the desires in my heart today. If there is anything that means something to me is words... and a note like this... just about means the world to me and is what drives me to continue to write, to look at people a different way, and is the fuel to what I find most meaningful in life... how you make a person feel when they’re in your presence. Such a nice person who wrote me this 💝
