The year 2013 marked the beginning of a dark phase in my life. I graduated from college that year with so much aspiration and believe. I was convinced all was going to be well. At least, I had been programmed to believe that to be successful, you had to be a good boy, go to school, graduate from college with good grades, get a good job and all your problems are solved. So, I executed to this plan to perfection, after all it was my blueprint of success. After executing this plan, reality dawned on me.
Now it was time to get a job, a good job, the kind of job that is suppose to put a smile on your face. The kind of job that was suppose to take away all you problems. Guess what happened? Yes! I was disappointed. In an economy where the rate of unemployment is amazingly ridiculous such that those who are of retirement age do not want to retire, how was I going to break through. I was frustrated, sad and depressed. I had never felt this bad my whole life. The frustration and bad feeling only opened up a new low point in my life. I got into things I shouldn't have. I battled with addictions and loneliness, lost friends and family because I was shy to come close to them
THE SWITCH
On the eve of Christmas 2016, I sat to reminisce about my life so far. I realized that I had become what I was because I let myself. I came to understand that society pushes on you their version of life. Most of which destroy the real you such that you are unable to find yourself. It depends on you to accept and implement ''a version'' of life, thus how you see life and think it should be or what others think it should be. For example, you can find lots of people struggling in their carriers or jobs they do. Many people work at places they hate, mindless jobs, dead-end jobs, jobs in which they cannot find their purpose and yet, they don't have the courage to quit. By virtue of society's version of life, many end up working to fulfill someone else's purpose. If you are in such a situation consider it a plane field to build your dream life.
RISE FROM THE ASHES
Begin to build the kind of life you want. The life the represent everything you have imagined and desired. This time around, remake the world in the image you have in your mind as to how things should be and not how others think it should be. Imagine building your dream house around an already existing delapidated structure that you hate so much. It will be an absolute disaster to try such a thing. So you see, it actually a blessing to build from ground up. It is a real joy to see what you have visualized, conceptualized for years finally becoming a reality. Its in this joy you can find true peace.
Believe in yourself, believe in your ability to turn your situation around from scratch. You are smart enough to take the negativity from the ashes, channel it into your inner strength and build your own world.
Don't wake up one day just to find out that your world has been built by people who are not half as smart as you.
To your wealth and happiness,
Sam
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