Enfield NC

Enfield NC, a photo by Darius Goins on Flickr.

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Sometimes the hardest part about following your dreams is convincing everybody else that you aren’t crazy. Harder than that, is when you’re trying to be better in life but those closest to you accuse you of thinking you’re better than them. As if deciding to stand alone or standing for something different means that you’re saying you stand above them. A small mind cannot fathom big dreams so expect to be doubted when you decide to change. Trying to be a better you today than you were yesterday is not a crime. Changing, improving, and learning is what life is all about. The worst thing a “friend” can do to somebody trying to be better is to throw their past mistakes in their face. Don’t remind them of their failures before you acknowledge the universes favor. When people feel insecure about what they lack, they feel threatened by what you have. That’s why envy is the highest form of ignorance. Nobody knows what universe has placed in you like you do and nobody knows what you had to go through to get where you are. The reason you struggled before and the reason you fight today, are for your testimony and not to be tested by the phony. And it’s not always that people don’t believe in you, it’s just that sometimes the freedom of your courage reminds them that they’re chained to their fear. So continuing seeking greatness, be brilliant, be bold, and be beautiful because in the words of a great poet, “Who are you NOT to be?”