In social media today – all the content is how to be successful, how to be a jacked, how to be a millionaire… its fantasy.
In reality, I was addicted to gaming (10+ hours/day cycling through games after I eventually got bored), addicted to drugs (smoking all day, every single day just to deal with the boredom and dread) and deeply unhappy.
So if you're like me and life keeps giving you failure after failure showing you that the jacked, crypto bro lifestyle isn't for you then you'll understand where I'm coming from when I say, not only will I not be that stuff, I don't want to be that stuff and I'm honestly content with that.
I want a stable job so I don't have to worry about money, I want to like who I am, and I want to be proud of my body and the choices I make.
I'm average, I'm NORMAL.
The content around being average is always so negative, I saw videos of "Life as an average guy" with a doomer cartoon with rope around it's neck – I used to relate to this and now I actually do not. My experience, being average is nice, it's true.
Over time, I stopped hiding from what I already kinda knew was true anyway and I started to listen to some of the messages that life was giving me.
Once I accepted who I was – a regular person with slightly above average goals, I was no longer paralysed – The goals I was setting didn't NEED to be huge, they were realistic targets I could actually achieve. That transition from seeming confident but feeling insecure to seeming uncertain but feeling honest was life-changing, I don't think I used to realise how much better the 2nd option is.
It made it so much easier to take small steps forward – steps I could be proud of. In my opinion confidence = being able to be proud of what you do, it's easier when stuff goes well but so much harder when it doesn't and allowing yourself to be average is what helps with the failures.
I made a video explaining this in more detail, but wanted to share the story here as a post too. Hopefully someone relates to it.
by SolomonDarbey
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Normal mean being like anyone else.
Or in this world, there’s no such thing as 2 same human. Even identical twin will have difference.
Being “normal” is just to be yourself and not caring about what others think or want. Human are a dumb animal and are easily influenced by anything that can impress them or cause some emotion. Just be yourself and do thing that you want. Then you may choose to be happy or not as happiness is all about our own life choice