My First Blog Post

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

Truer words cannot be spoken more than these ones above from the Irish writer, Oscar Wilde, whose grave I actually visited in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

I’ve had a tough time being myself throughout my life. Too often, I look at other people and am more interested in what he or she does for a living, rather than worry about myself. Everybody is different in their own way and I am aware of that. Consequently, I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands. I’ve decided to stop being inspired and instead become the inspirer. I want to aspire people to reach for their ultimate goals in life and not stop until they do.

For me, my goal is to travel the world in some capacity for a living. To me, life is too short to sit around and wait for something to happen. I need to take the initiative and start pursuing my dream as soon as possible and I hope to reach out to others in this manner. I want to say to anybody who’s struggling finding their life’s calling or is struggling to achieve their dream, my advice would be to never give up and stay true to yourself.

I’ve been a sore loser throughout much of my life and it’s time for me to change that. I have to learn to accept “failures,” or as my biggest inspiration, Jacob Laukaitis said, “lessons to be learned.” If you’re ever doubting yourself, you should stop, take deep breaths, and carefully analyze the scenario and construct your options. At the end of the day, there’s always something you can do.

One thing that I’ve learned when it comes to accepting myself is throw away negativity from other people and for me, social media is the main culprit, especially Twitter and Facebook. Now, I’m not against social media entirely, I have social media accounts and I think it’s a great way to connect, hell I wouldn’t have talked with Jacob if there wasn’t YouTube. However, I feel that social media should be limited if one wants to experience life to the fullest.

Too often, I’m stuck in my own head, thinking unrealistically and not embracing where I stand at the current moment. I’ve probably wasted more time away on my iPhone than I could possibly imagine. iPhones get you nowhere but trouble. I’ve realized that the phone unfortunately has consumed my life. It’s so bad that I almost can’t go anywhere without glancing at it. The phone is not you, it’s holding you back. It’s time to snap out of it and start living in the moment and I hope to do so more often moving forward. In my 22 years of living, I think I’ve seen the world move further away from humanity and more towards technology.

Technology can’t buy happiness. Attitudes, determination and perseverance in my opinion, are the keys to living a happy life and I should be more cognizant of that a lot more often.