It’s not about success

Success is

Not dependent on recognition

It comes from the process

Comes from openly acknowledging obstacles and bullshit and fear and insecurities

AND THEN

boldly and recklessly and fully deciding to continue

It’s about going

It’s About “running”

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When I was 18, I carved the following words into the right side of my bed frame and across my bed side table,

“When it comes, run. Don’t ever stop running. Trust me, you’ll thank me one day”

(Seems dramatic, but it was important for me at the time)

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I still love that idea,

But I see it a little differently now,

Today it’s more like,

“When it comes, you will run. But not away. Keep running, but now you need to run (into) it.

Run into it.

And then,

Keep running into it.

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Hell no I don’t want to think about

A lot of the shit I’ve got on my mind right now

But for today, I have decided I will run

And these days I’m giving all I have to keep running towards “it”

I’m not running away from it

I’m not running around it

Not over and not under,

But Running Into it,

And eventually

No matter how long it takes

I’ll run through it

And I hope you folks do the same

Whatever it is you have to run from/towards/through

Just keep running

For the sake of yourselves

Be the people who need you here

And for me (because I get real warm and fuzzy when the people I love, win the fight against “it”

And I promise I’ll keep hoping

That someday we’ll all thank my 18 year old self