Mybiggestregretever:

mybiggestregretever:

My biggest regret ever is picking the wrong college.

[Male, 21]

Picking the Wrong College

Being somebody doesn't necessarily make you unique, but being genuine does because you're being yourself and there's no one else like you.

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Day 2 - Confidence

It's the ability to know what you have, what you don't, what you want and how to get there with the inability to accept anything less. --nmm

Everyone says this and I do believe it's true; confidence is the key to success. What's surprising though is many people, including myself, lack confidence. Confidence is not conceited. Being conceited is over exaggerating one's traits and accomplishments which should be regarded as adequate in their own right. Arrogance is looking in the mirror and ignoring your flaws while fooling oneself with the over emphasis of positive traits. Confidence is seeing the truth in both flaws and fine points and accepting them for what they  are in order to use them to the best of their ability.

Anyway, knowing your abilities and how you can use them to your advantage is important in achieving everything you want. But confidence is also action. It's easy to speak about what you want and one can fantasize about how these dreams can be attained but without action it's a simple daydream, a fantasy, a wish. Confidence allows one to go out into the cold, ruthless, insensitive world with all the self-assurance they need to fight back. Ones with confident have a mindset that says if I go through with this I have nothing to lose and everything to gain but if I let this opportunity pass I have everything to lose; my self respect, my chance at success and my happiness just to be comfortable.  To be unafraid of rejection and ignore the hatred while actually doing what needs to be done is confidence and that is something that I find a lot of people need to adopt. Lack of confidence leads to staying within the box, settling for less and staying comfortable rather than achieving more than expected and gaining happiness through action and the knowledge of who you truly are.  

Plato: Do you think the end of the world will come at night time?

Jim Stark: Uh-uh, at dawn.

Oh shit...

Y'know when you're walking and you come to that horrifying realization that "OH shit...I've been going the wrong way this whole time." What do you do? You'll do anything to make yourself look like less of an idiot by making some outrageous arm gesture with words like "I knew those directions he gave me were wrong". Maybe you'll even go as far as pretending to be on the phone and speak louder than usual about how you'll "be there in 10 minutes" as you make a 180 degree turn. But what happens when your life journey has been on the wrong path, you come to a fork in the road in need of a decision and none of the outcomes look great? Do you soldier on to your impending doom in order to save face or do you go against every word and every plan you've ever had for yourself and turn around while making yourself look foolish in the process? I believe I'm there. I'm facing a terrible decision knowing that no matter how great the results it's still not the outcome I'm hoping for in my life.

Best friends

Him: We're pretty much best friends right?

Her: Mhmm.

Him: Would you consider comforting you when you get your heart broken my responsibility then?

Her: ...uh yeah. That's pretty obvious.

Him: Oh, well I guess I''m not really best friend material.

Her: Wha-

Him: I mean I won't even be there by your side to tell you he's not good enough for you and he never deserved you.

Her: You're an ass. Why?

Him: Well I'm actually gonna be by his side.

Her: -glare- ...what the fu-

Him: Well, technically he'll be on his side while I'm standing over him and kicking him in the stomach. I guess I'd never be a great best friend because if anyone ever broke your heart I'd GPS the mother fucker and break his neck, just sayin'.