PURSUING HAPPINESS

Be Extraordinary

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One Month

One month before graduation. I should feel confident. I should feel inspired and empowered. One month before graduation and I feel lost and confused.

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Realize your self.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Alice Walker (via upliftingquotes)

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Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction.

Bobby Sommer (via stillesgeschrei)

Positive thoughts equate positive change

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We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

John Marsden, The Dead of Night (via landscape-photo-graphy)

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Second Adolescence

I’ve spent my entire life pretending to be someone else. Like so many others I’ve become infatuated with media figures. The hobbies I possess aren’t my passions they are the passions of others that I had tried to emulate. These media figures all portray characteristics I admire, characteristics I felt I lacked. Throughout my childhood I dressed and behaved like the characters I watched in movies. There were times that I altered who I was on a weekly basis because I had become infatuated with one of the characters. As I grew older I had zero sense of who I was as a person. Now in my early 20’s I’ve come to the realization that I have no idea who I am. I used to think that my adolescent years would be a time of self-discovery and that by the time I turn 22 I would know who I was. Katie Dalebout (Wellness Wonderland) mentioned in her recent podcast that your 20’s being your second adolescence. This statement rings so true, I am 22 and feel just as lost as I did when I was 12. I’ve been obsessed with being anyone else but myself. What is so awful about being me?

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I want to know what it's like to be happy

the source of my happiness

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The flesh that lived and loved will be eaten by plague So let the memories be good for those who stay

Mumford & Sons

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Fear Failure

We refuse to fail at our dreams.

We accept the idea of an ordinary life.