This is a blog for passionate people. Here I will share my take on the experiences that taught me that dreams aren't to be lived: they are to be built.
Passion has taken me around the world, driven me out of my comfort zone, and inspired me to shape the world around me. How far will your passion take you?
I believe it’s important to know what we believe in to be able to live by these things, call them values or principles or faith. And sometimes, especially when things are turbulent and uncertain, it helps to come back to these beliefs and ground ourselves in these personal convictions.
I am a high performance athlete with anxiety… It’s a fact; not a weakness or a fault.
When I really don’t know what I’m feeling, and I can’t make sense of it, I’ve also learned the value and importance of asking for help. I seek out the people who know me best, and sometimes someone who doesn’t know me at all but has professional experience. I know that this does not make me weak. When I feel like it does, I repeat to myself that it does not because that’s the truth. It’s ok to not be ok.
What’s more: as this year comes to a close, I feel that I am exactly where I need to be, happy with the work I have put in. More so, I’m confident that it’s the right path.
Thanksgiving reminds me to take a few moments to be grateful, to take more time than I normally would to name, out loud, the things for which I am grateful, those things that share a part in my happiness, sense of security, optimism, or well-being.
It would be much easier, the path of least resistance, to stay quiet, not speak up; but doing something just because it’s easier is not really my thing.
The cure we need, that the world needs, is for the ignorance and intolerance that labels LGBT people as sick.
