Reflecting on what happened on my journey thus far I've come to find two statements to be true.

If you seek an easy way, you will have a hard life.
If you seek a more challenging way, you will have a more rewarding life.

The only problem is that I should have realized the above statements sooner so my payoff could have came sooner.

For me personally this holds true, I'm now capable of much more than I thought I was since I challenged myself.
Coming here to forkheads took me to a path where I developed some intermediate skills in web developement. But i never took it any further than just putting together what was already build for me. When I was a kid I wanted to be a programmer, but I never really challenged myself to go for it up until this year.

I would always tell myself that it was just beyond my level of thinking, making excuses for why I didn't want to do it. It was more fun to "just make art" and get high and relax. Even though I possessed the capacity to follow my dreams I didn't because I never challenged myself. That lead me to drift no where remaining broke and aimless for a half of my twenties.

Even my first job (tech support for websites and servers), months before knowing about it I told myself that I couldn't do it because "I wasn't smart enough". When I finally decided to go for it, I was hired immediately, but the first few months I kept telling myself that it was going to be too difficult for me and that I should give up.

Once I got over that barrier I never looked back and since then I've challenged myself.

And its paid off, I can actually call myself a programmer, to the point where I can setup my own servers, build my own applications and design the user interfaces for them.

If you're ever in a position where your telling yourself that you're not good enough or not <insert something> enough to do something, go against that. Your future self will thank you.

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CUE THE BGM.

ALSO CUE THE MANLY TEARS OF MANLY TOUGHNESS.

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*Double Nods*
I feel obligated to congratulate you. However, that'd be too ordinary.

So I'll do this.


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