Only So Much

I'm starting to realize that there is only so much you can do.

Everything I have been doing lately has seemed to do nothing but bite me in the ass. I am trying to be honest, I am trying to follow my gut, I'm trying to be up front with people, and I'm trying to confide in my friends to form closer relationships. I guess it was my mistake in thinking that these things would only bring positive consequences. I've also been trying really hard to stop thinking that I can make people understand me and see things how I see them. I know this is impossible but I think that if they could only understand how I am feeling that it would make everything better. It would resolve the issue... But this can't be done. This can't be done because you cannot control what other people say, think, or do. Everyone has a choice and sometimes those choices affect you and there's nothing you can do about it. The only thing you can change is your attitude toward it.

I'm frustrated... I think that I am doing the right things but soon discover that I am wrong. Maybe I just need to be patient, maybe I'm still on the right track but I need more time. Maybe some things just aren't meant to be...

Self Reliance

"When you find yourself searching for the strength to grow outside your situation, however ideal or horrifying it may be, read this book. When you find yourself adopting the opinions of those surrounding you rather than waking each day with the joy and dare I say burden of exploring and exposing that which is authentically you, read this book. We live in a world where the strongest survive; where those who are unafraid to speak their personal truth end up writing ours for us. Simply put, a life lived in the shadow of fear is a life wasted."

-Andrew McMahon regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Reliance"

Awesome

I need to start being more awesome:) 

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