Stories of a Stoic
When the decade began, all I wanted was security. But tacitly I knew that security came at the cost of the life I had really wanted, the one I was too shy to even admit to myself. A life of academic success, strategic risks, and unprecedented accomplishments. A few years later I understood that passivity was consequential, and i’d earn myself the antithesis of these desires if I didn’t make changes.
Then I did.
And now I have a capacity for excitement where once was comfort, risk for security, and vulnerability for certainty. Even on my worst of days I get to rise to the life that i’ve always wanted, and that’s priceless.
Understanding the overwhelming control over our circumstances gives us control itself. Believing we have little control over our circumstances forfeits control. Our beliefs about our limitations manifests those limitations. And one path leads to happiness and the other leads to everything opposing happiness.
So as we welcome a new decade, i’d like to kindly remind everybody that we’re ever only a few decisions away from the lives we dream of.
May your actions be as daring as your dreams.
