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| Necklace made from a typewriter part. |
I'm starting an Etsy store, so that's where all my energy has gone. Another website to maintain, product to make (and photograph), policies to come up with, legal stuff to fret over. Get the picture?
So, yeah, I slacked off. Not because I was bored of random posting here on the interwebs but because I needed to devote my time elsewhere.
Still, I believe failure only happens when ya stop trying to succeed. Falling down is easy, it's the getting back up part that many people suck at.
For a long time, I never tried to succeed at anything. Partly because I didn't believe in myself, but also because I was surrounded by people who didn't believe in me either. Know how much of a downer that is? They actually try to make you feel good about mediocrity.
My mother had even, at one point, told me to do nothing but work and watch T.V.. Her reason? Why not, it's what everyone else does.
Those words haunted me long after she passed away. My own mother had no vested interest in my future. It was heartbreaking. And for a long time, I failed. I failed to create personal goals. I failed to connect with people. I failed to care about anything at all.
Don't get me wrong, I loved my mom (r.i.p.). She just lacked in the nurture department.
It took me close to a decade to get back on track. By then, I realized I was surrounded by people who were ambition-less and didn't want to see me (or anyone else) succeed. Weeding these people out of my life hasn't been easy, but it has been necessary.
The moral of the story? If you're trying, you're succeeding, because if you're not trying, you've already failed.
So if you have to slack off in one area in order to improve overall, I say it's worth it. Just make sure it's one area you can afford to slack off in. Like writing a pointless blog.
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