The most beautiful thing that ever happens to you is realizing nobody is actually paying attention to you. Once you figure out everyone is too obsessed with their own messy lives to care about your failures or embarrassing moments, you get complete freedom. Every goddamn human is obsessed with what other people think of them. Those are the chains that caged you for so long. Break them and be free.
I regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge, but almost always from:
- Getting humiliated
- Showing up terrified and doing it anyway
- Admitting you might be the problem
- Outgrowing people you swore you would love forever
- Forgiving someone who was never actually sorry