Face The Truth

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

-Katherine Mansfield

I always hear my friends complaining about situations in their lives-- they don't like the college they go to, their parents make them feel like shit (or their significant others). They are not happy with these things, or these things are hurting them; however, they continue to stay in these situations because of someone else. These stories always dishearten me. Don't get me wrong, I can feel sympathy and even empathy for my friends. It only makes me so angry after a while when they don't DO anything.

I understand that life is hard. I understand that some things happen that we cannot control, including other people. But I also understand that there is one thing we can always control-- ourselves.

We cannot expect our lives to change if we continue to do nothing. The same actions generate the same results. We need to push our limits, take risks, do things that are difficult for us. That is the only way we will ever learn about ourselves to live a life of happiness. Everyone deserves to be happy, but not everyone is because some people sit around waiting for it to fall into their laps.

Another thing is that we all worry about what others will think or how they will feel about the things that we do in our own lives-- or at least we have at some point. The truth is that sometimes we have to be selfish. And this connotation of the word is not the narcissistic, egotistic kind of selfishness…it's one that seeks personal happiness. Because that is the ultimate goal of life, right?

If you never try, you'll never know. A simple quote overflowing with truth. Life is a trial-and-error game chock-full of mistakes. From these mistakes come growth and experience. This is how we become who we are. Face the truth-- your own truth-- and live your own life.