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Have you ever had that moment when things just finally clicked? 

Like you find a ray of hope amidst the chaos?

I used to take life way too seriously back when I was 18 to pretty much 23. I wanted to have everything by 23 and rushed into everything. I almost finished getting everything I wanted but then it crumbled. My mental health got the best of me the last two years and everything I’ve known became ashes and remnants. There was nothing  left that I could hope for, or so I thought. My plan A and B didn’t work. 

I started limiting myself to believe that everything is over and I am going to be stuck in a loop with guilt, resentment, and the past.  At night, I used to get lost in my thoughts thinking that I just fuck up big in life. Then I realized, perhaps I have not let go of the pressure that my circle had on me. That I have to be something by a certain age,stable job, have a house, get married and then die. I felt really old when I didn’t get everything I wanted by 23  then until I saw what old really is.

For no reason, today I thought about it all. I looked closely at people who start late, who leave their stable job for more adventure, who sell their house to be a nomaden, who choose to never marry and never have children. The people that are against what society deems normal. The people who switch different paths in life. Those people are not strangers to me, I met them at some point in my life and they’re really the most interesting people I talk to. And it finally clicked. That’s it’s okay to be different and it’s okay not to have everything by 23, 24 or even 30! 


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