Your desire is not to become someone else, but to be more thoroughly yourself, realizing your true potential. You see your character as the clay that you will work with, slowly transforming your very weaknesses into strengths.
Whatever you do, don’t be the guy who gives up at the exact moment when you should be fighting with everything you have.
You’ll make it through either way, but there’s only one way you’ll look back and be proud of yourself.
The most depressed man in the family isn’t the mother, isn’t the father. It’s the eldest son. Carrying pressure. Carrying silence. Carrying everyone. To every firstborn son, may you WIN, loudly and unapologetically.
I once heard my boss man say to another employee “You know John, you’re not the sharpest pencil in the box” and without skipping a beat the guy replied “Welp boss man, a sharp pencil is a sign it ain’t never done a lick of work”. I think about that to this day.
You’re not where you want to be because you don’t have the skills to get there yet. But you have all the time in the world to learn them as long as you never give up.