You can’t just run away, you need to run towards something.
You get bombarded everyday with articles: Quit your job. Don’t Your quit job. Take a Big Leap. Take Small Steps. It’s messy and confusing. But nothing will be smooth and perfect. Because anything worth doing takes grit, takes trade-offs, and takes missteps. It’s a lie that you’ll wake up one day and have started a new app, or have become a best selling novelist, or have started the organization of your dreams.
A journey can’t be captured in a 250-word blog post. Because there are the in-between steps, the nights of doubt, the struggle, and the pressing feeling of pure selfishness and guilt that keeps you up at night. Because when you press against the tide, you are expected to eventually swim with the current.
Failure is what happens when you’re focused on wishing and not doing.
Failure is what you sit and distract yourself instead of going out and messing it all up.
And the mistake often made is only knowing what you are running away from, but failing to figure out what you’re running towards.
Your life is wild and precious and it’s yours. You should run towards something. Figure out what that is.