Right now, you may be at the cusp of something that feels thrilling or you are still hoping for your moment to be “at that cusp.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can feel your burden. I\u2019ve worked 10 years of my life pushing on the possibility that it would be my turn on the spotlight–creating a massive breakthrough that will make the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think we are in this tug for a certain possibility that it could be the us we were hoping to be when we were younger: that CEO; someone who found the cure for cancer; or be in the news, acting all confident and successful with good English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019d like to tell you, fellow 30+-year-old, that what you\u2019re feeling is all fine and normal for a human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You are in a constant motion of obsession for something that is still vague as the concept of adult love, built by expectations by your family, your society\u2026 and yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the age of Hustle and Overnight Success, you find yourself walking in an empowerment seminar feeling like a teenager again, still back to square one, still feeling a little confused, still feeling a little lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And this is my take for this: don\u2019t stop fighting for your spot in the world. <\/strong>Hopefully not for ego but for a life that would matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a world where most have succumbed to the comforting feeling of mediocrity because their moms always shared to them that job security is all there is, I hope you go outside the cycles and patterns of fleeting love-forms and addictions to find what your life really is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe what I\u2019m trying to say is, never stop fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Say yes to yourself again after you\u2019ve failed 5 startups. Say yes to yourself again even if you\u2019ve slipped into a wild romance that left you in the ash of angst and lack of self-worth. Say yes to yourself again even if people lost all their trust in you because you were determined but nothing seemed to breakthrough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Say yes to yourself again because there\u2019s nothing else worthier than believing that in this one life, you are entitled for something bigger than you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n May your worth be measured by your dedication to your chosen vocation and career, for that is worthier than having given up to a daily life of to-do lists trying to act as if you\u2019re “living.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s been helpful for me to see between the truth and the fake. The fake is comfort of daily lattes and too much of Netflix viewing without a real plan for the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The truth? It\u2019s a forever test of your endurance. <\/strong>But it’s where you get to meet who you could be. It’s a life of balancing the vocation you love with late night meet-ups with friends so you can have a “life.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n By all means, choose the latter. The latter will of course be rewarding because it\u2019s what will keep your soul singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So here, my friends, are some takeaways you can build on with the hopes that this will spark a fire in you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So be valuable, be gold. Your kind of gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wish you well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Fellow 30-Year-Old Who\u2019s Still Figuring It Out, The 30’s is that feeling of being at the cusp of something more. We’re all going through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":5383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[328,310],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-growth","tag-inspirational","tag-personal-growth","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Ralph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"