This sentence moved me deeply and that’s exactly why I’m talking about it in the current episode of Men in Crisis.
I’m talking about something that affects us all – Courage. Honesty. And the question of whether we are really living our own lives.
In the following, I’ll tell you what my mother said shortly before she died:
“I wish I had been able to study and become a teacher.”
No wealth, no great adventures – just an honest, silent desire.
That goes deep. Because it shows: In the end, it’s not the expectations of others that count, but what we haven’t allowed ourselves to live.
If you know exactly what you need to do… and you don’t have the balls to do it – that’s brutal self-sabotage.
And yes, that’s right. How often do we know exactly what we want to do – and still don’t do it?
Because we are afraid, want to please others, often want to be “reasonable”.
But what does this common sense cost us? Perhaps the very life that would have fulfilled us.
To put it in a nutshell: As long as you live in fear, you are maximally manipulable.
I would like to remind you that freedom does not mean doing everything perfectly – but finally being honest:
With ourselves, with our needs and with what we really want.
At the end of the conversation I say:
“If you’re not up for an awesome life, then at least be the role model you never had. A role model is not a victim – a role model makes decisions.”
Perhaps that is precisely the point:
No more waiting for anything. Stop making excuses and start living your life today – with all its consequences, but also with all its power.
Question for you:
Are you really living your life – or are you still fulfilling other people’s expectations?
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