Don't Let Someone Else Live Your Life

A lot of people live unhappy lives because they're too busy being what others want or think they should be.  I've been guilty of this myself.  We get caught up in what society says we should be doing, or we get caught up with what our family and friends say we should be doing.  Somewhere in between trying to keep up with the world and please everybody else we forget about ourselves.  We forget that we have hopes, dreams, and desires.  We forget about the things that make us happy.  We drag our feet on a daily basis because we hate the job we have to go to, or we hate the people we have to hang around just to make things "look" good, but when is enough enough? At some point, you have to tell everybody to just piss off and let you live your life.  At some point, you're going to have to stand out from the crowd.  Even if that means that you have to stand alone.  You can't, nor should you want to go through life making everyone happy but yourself.  Yes it's cool to help people, and sometimes you may even have to bend a little to make sure that things go smoothly in your life, but when you find yourself feeling lost without a train of your own thoughts, or when you find yourself not knowing what the hell it is that you're doing with your life anymore, I think it's time for you to let some stuff and or people go.  You have the right to be YOU.  You have the right to do what makes YOU happy.  If everyone wants you to be a doctor and what you want is to be in the circus, then kill two birds with one stone and do a doctor's routine as a part of your act.  No matter what it might be, you simply have to stay true to yourself, and for those that may have a problem with that, well that would be their problem to deal with and not yours.  Besides, if someone is so focused on your life and what you should be doing, clearly that means they're not focused on themselves and what they should be doing.  Do you honestly want to take crap from someone who doesn't even have their lives in order? I know I sure don't.  So I encourage you today to put your foot down in your life.  Stand up to those holding you back, even if you're the one that's doing it.  Make sure your life means something to YOU.  As long as you're not taking away from another person or harming them physically, I say go for it unapologetically.  This isn't the only life that you're going to live, but it is yours to live it how you see fit.  So go and make it happen, and tell life that ZeeBee sent you.