…is Copyblogger’s The Snowboard, the Subdural Hematoma, and the Secret of Life:
It’s all too easy to tell ourselves we can’t really do what we want. That it’s not practical, or it’s too hard, or that our dreams are selfish and not the “right thing” to do.
I got over that really fast. Every delusional and self-defeating system of thought I had carried around with me for years was revealed for what it was… my own mind creating false limitations.
Usually our worldviews, routines, and obligations evolve over a period of years.
But sometimes your world can change instantly, like when you have a baby, or you realize that decades of school can’t teach you how to live, or that hairy mole turns out to be cancer.
Instant clarity. Too bad it’s hard to access that clarity until you’re at the precipice.