[rawrr]

Originally Posted by IbnMardhiyah

Have you ever read the story about the man and the butterfly?

Check it out.

Hmm..

Find something you know you like doing anyways, and just go at it. To avoid disappointment, lower your expectations though and consider the possibilities instead - you're not going to become a Picasso or Tolkien overnight. You know it'll take a lot of tries and failures before you get good at it.

Success motivates me more than failure. It works differently for different people

If you're walking with a friend along the side of a road, and you fall down, what does a real friend do? Tell you that you're not good enough to keep walking with them? Do they laugh at you or scold you for falling down? No, they bend down and help you stand up, they brush the dirt off your clothes and you two continue to keep walking.

So who are you hanging around with? [aside from family]

I'm not going into this, all I can say is there's normally an awkward silence when people ask my parents what I'm doing with my life.

Yeah you did.

When you were a baby.

You were just a little runt. You didn't know how to walk. You weren't a toddler. Yet you kept trying and falling. You didn't give a damn, YOU JUST KEPT GOING. You kept hauling yourself up to your feet, you kept trying to walk with support with nearby furniture first, and then finally you took a few steps unsupported, you fell down on your face, you got BACK UP AGAIN and kept going and now .... you walk and talk like everyone else.

So you became something you weren't.

This is more instinct than anything else. It's not instinctive to want to be something your not. (Atleast I don't think it is)

Wayne Gretzky - one of the greatest hockey players ever - kept practicing and trying until he became what he wasn't, before. He has a quote I love:

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”

There's so many others that weren't good at what they eventually became good at yet they kept going.

Babe Ruth.
Muhammad bin Qasim.
Donald Trump.
Margaret Atwood.
Muhammad Ali.
Thomas Edison.
Al Gore.
Tariq bin Ziyad.
Malcolm X.
A.G. Bell.
Terry Fox.

... and so many others.

You could be a good counselor. Maybe this is one of those things that you are naturally good at?

Originally Posted by ShotgunMessiah

YIGOFEO.


(Yes I've Got One For Every Occasion)

Spammer

Originally Posted by Nabisco007

"I'm the best! I'm the best! I'm the best! (yes you are the best! you're the best! you're the best!)"

I'm the Best

This is rather disturbing.

Originally Posted by MuslimZ

I'm an english major... the answer is obvious...

Cool, I like how your an english major from Wirginia...