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Realize That One Awesome Fact To Be Positive
Tense and perfect and the best adjectives to describe your life.
To like or not to like your past. That’s a tough debate for most people. To like or not to like your future is also a difficult choice to make when things don’t seem to go “your” way.
There’s a lot of talk about living in the present. In a sense, that’s the best solution to forget the hardships we’ve been through and stop overthinking the ones that’ll come. It isn’t that easy though, is it?
You’ve been through a lot. Maybe it wasn’t much in the eyes of other people, but you were hurt in the past. You made decisions that didn’t work out. You suffered due to other people’s choices. You had wishes that didn’t come true.
My own life has been difficult in a sense. There are countless people who had a more difficult past than me but the pain I felt was just as real. Maybe even as intense.
But you know what? This is also what shaped me, what made me become the man I am today.
I remember the pleasure of being accepted into the Japanese Major in University only to be informed 3 weeks later the University “didn’t have enough space” and I had to find something else somewhere else. That pushed me to double down on my objective of learning…
