I Am Living In My Own World
Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
JOMO; Joy-of-Missing-Out
I have mastered it for as long as I can remember. When I saw the release of The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck book, I thought to myself, “I could’ve written the fucking book.”
I don’t know how it started but I have always lived my life according to my own definition. When I was a kid, I came to realize that a lot of my friends wanted to be a doctor. I didn’t and I didn’t care. I never felt like I had to want to be a doctor also just like them.
I Want What I Want, Regardless
I have always found it very clear about what I wanted. What school I wanted to go to, what extracurricular I wanted to pursue, what new lessons I wanted to learn, what I wanted to do in my free time, and how I wanted to look. I just always have strong instincts I suppose and I decided all for myself regardless if people were doing the same thing or not.
It never occurred to me to look at other people and think “Oh maybe I should do that too”. I couldn’t really figure out why. It wasn’t that I didn’t care. It was just a feeling of “Oh she was doing that. Good for her.” It doesn’t really have anything to do with me what other people do. If I didn’t want it or didn’t want to do it, I was good. I…