Stop apologizing. Stop apologizing for who you are, what you believe, and how you see the world. Sto
p apologizing for your failures. They lift you up. They push you to be more.
Stop apologizing for being different, unusual or unique. There's a saying that if you are lucky enou
gh to be different, don't ever change. Embrace that. Hold it.
Stop apologizing for taking a path less traveled, for breaking away from the pack. It's not an insuf
ficiency. It doesn't mean you couldn't go their way. It means you have the courage to be yourself in
a world trying to make you someone else.
Stop apologizing for words that don't align with someone else's ideology or world view. Your job isn
't to appease or conform, is to grab hold of what lights a fire in you, and use it to brighten the w
orld around you.
Stop apologizing for your dreams. It's okay to not be content where you are. It's okay to want to gr
ow, to become more.
The roots planting them to the ground, they are not yours. And why waste the opportunity beyond the
horizon of your current existence?
See, having the courage of your convictions is like unlocking your mind. Realizing that, yeah, you h
ave the key and you've had it all.
No one else gets to set your parameters. They don't get to tell you what's right or what to believe.
The people around you are not moral arbiters. They're not protectors of truth.
Remember that. Remember that no one knows better than you what's best for you. That's why there's po
wer in intuition in following your beliefs, your strengths, in doing what makes you happy relentless
ly, pursuing what makes you feel alive.
The thing about dreams, ideas, potential, they're always meaningless, until they're not. See, everyt
hing is crazy, until it exists.
So protect it. Don't bow down to pressures of now, simply because you have not yet built tomorrow. Y
ou will, if you want it, you will. Some messages they are incredibly simple, and this, my friends, i
s one of those.
You have everything you need to become who you want to be right now. As you listen to this in real t
ime, you don't need approval or permission or acceptance. You don't need to belong or be told it's n
ormal.
You simply need to start, to know that you will pick yourself up when you fall and keep going.
Not apologize, but continue placing one foot in front of the other. Not look externally for a will t
o carry on that only exists within you. See, the second you begin rewriting the rules, changing the
game, you put yourself in position to emerge victorious.