People would rather attribute your success to luck than hard work because the thought that they could achieve it too but aren’t putting in the work is too frightening.
Ignore people to tell you not to do the thing you love.
Love - as I define it - is what you’re willing to sacrifice to keep something.
You just need to decide which one you love more. Your dreams or their approval.
You sacrifice one for the other.
Understandable: 20th century person reasoning 40-50 years of health debauchery indulgence is better than 70-80 without.
21st century: be sure to do the hard work to hang around for what may be the most extraordinary human experience ever.