Your Dreams VS. The World

One of the main reasons I wanted to create this blog is to share my struggles with finding my path in life and hopefully find others that can relate. I'm not speaking from a place of being on the other side of it, i'm still searching and I might be for a while, and that's okay. I've always felt out of place as I witnessed people around me excelling in college, graduating, getting high paying jobs etc. I'm 24, I tried college and it wasn't for me, then decided I wanted to work as a massage therapist, again wasn't for me, and now I'm onto attempting to get my yoga teacher certification. I change what I want to do every other week or just add a ton of new things to the list. Right now its yoga teacher, photographer and stick and poke tattoo artist. And now apparently blogger. It's taken me years to finally realize that I'm living with myself and my decisions, so why would I ever give a fuck what people think of me?

That last sentence is way easier said than done. I still get down every once in a while comparing my life to a shit ton of random peoples lives, mostly thanks to social media. But for the most part I am confident in who I am. I've never wanted to live a "traditional" lifestyle. Graduate from college, get some boring job that I hate, commute 2 hours to work, then retire and die. or die then retire. I always wanted to do something unconventional and that I was really passionate about. My mom used to tell me that I was a dreamer when I was younger, but one thing she didn't tell me was that those dreams could come true one day. I mean seriously, there are millions of people doing exactly what they want to do, travelling, living in vans, making music, creating art, etc, doing everything I've ever wanted to, and that you've ever wanted to, so there's absolutely no excuse as to why we can't do it too.

Stop letting people force their outlooks and negative opinions on you, of course everyone is entitled to their opinions, but please don't let them shake you. It's so easy to feel alone and like there's no one like you in the world, and of course everyone is completely unique, but what I mean is that there are plenty of people in this place living unconventional lifestyles and having the time of their fucking lives. It might hurt at first, the opinions from family members and friends, trust me I know. But once you're in alignment and completely living for YOUR souls purpose that stuff will slowly start to fall away. My only regret so far is not listening to my intuition earlier, I always felt a pull or like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing and I tried so hard to ignore it. PLEASE don't ever do that. Find your purpose and make yourself happy, and this might sound harsh but if you have to leave a friend, a family member, a partner, or a job behind that's not resonating or supporting your dreams drop them like a hot fucking potato.

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I know I am, and I'll be yelling fuck you to everyone who told me I couldn't do it from my RV window travelling around the country.