Jason Voorhees
Say cheese
- Joined
- May 15, 2020
- Posts
- 79,659
- Reputation
- 232,533
Growing up as teen for years I convinced myself that I wasn't good enough to for things that truly mattered to me. I'd stare at a test message or an empty gym bag and think, I'll ask out that girl when I have lost weight. I'll learn that web stack when I've sorted my routine. I tied every dream to some future milestone if I could just achieve this x, save that amount z or feel more confident, then I'd finally be ready. The truth is those conditions never arrived. Life kept moving, and I kept waiting watching opportunities slip by while I polished an imaginary version of myself that would supposedly be worthy one day.
I see this same attitude as a direct mirror to my past self in many of you. Many of you are just like me. Waiting for some X surgery while life moves on, waiting for some X thing to happen to get a job. Some imaginary thing that you have made up in your head tieing you down and expecting a moment of epiphany and you wake up and you have already wasted a year.
These are things that we tell ourselves to stay comfortable. I started small. I literally didn't even understand css and basic frameworks when I first started freelancing. I was googling what node modules means when I was getting paid to do work. Yes I was that bad. And I started asking out to girls when I was fat idiot and nothing to offer to a woman. But that was what built momentum. The real growth starts the moment you decide you're enough right now, flaws and all.
I see this same attitude as a direct mirror to my past self in many of you. Many of you are just like me. Waiting for some X surgery while life moves on, waiting for some X thing to happen to get a job. Some imaginary thing that you have made up in your head tieing you down and expecting a moment of epiphany and you wake up and you have already wasted a year.
These are things that we tell ourselves to stay comfortable. I started small. I literally didn't even understand css and basic frameworks when I first started freelancing. I was googling what node modules means when I was getting paid to do work. Yes I was that bad. And I started asking out to girls when I was fat idiot and nothing to offer to a woman. But that was what built momentum. The real growth starts the moment you decide you're enough right now, flaws and all.
Last edited: