Yes, I'm a Thursday's child. Sometimes joked in the family that I came up short or had a bit of a want. But better spun that the sky was my limit and that I had a long and eventful journey ahead to great things. I think that's something that has stuck.
I've always been very driven.
And I do like the phrase "it's about the journey not the destination".
Funny how success has felt like it has held me back. I am actually pretty clever. No point in trying to hide it or be modest. That's why it was ok to joke about me being simple and having no common sense. Seriously I think perception of success and classical indicators of success are subjects that need to be re-evaluated if we are to live fulfilling lives. This is a strong undertone of my personal journey and one I want to make less taboo.
Sometimes I question that by following this desire for a better, simpler life is equivalent to dropping out of life and somehow I'm justifying it to myself by writing my own unconventional value system. "Look at me all high and mighty, making my own rules and then whoops, what?....Should have stuck at the day job? This is cyclical and catastrophising. Don't enter the loop. JFDI is the code to call at this point.
I just don't like convention or being told what to do. That's the only thing I have to accept. Make up the rest.