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I Don't Deserve Success But I Want It Bad
I’m just another Joe but I’ll keep my eyes on the prize.
Much like most other people, I haven’t accomplished anything really particular in my life. I’m just a man with some stuff I want to do but never truly found my way.
After all, despite having a rather good life until now, I’ve always focused on what was missing.
I want to practice my languages with natives! But I don’t have the time.
I want to travel to the rest of Asia! But I don’t have the money.
I want to grow my audience! But I don’t have the knowledge on how to attract people to read me.
We’re all so often caught up in our own problems that we can’t seem to notice the happy times, the opportunities we get and the support people all around us offer.
When we see people who have “succeeded”, we tend to believe they deserved it. If you look at their past, it feels like they were always supposed to reach that point and we find ourselves judging and being jealous.
I guess that’s also why what really connects with us in articles and videos is to see how “normal” some other people are and how vulnerable they are.
