I wasn't being very nice to you today.
I didn’t believe in you and wouldn’t let you finish when you told me what you really wanted. I believed you weren’t ready yet, it seemed too ambitious. I didn’t try to encourage you, instead, I told you you were not good enough. You just needed some more practice, and spend the rest of your time to other, less meaningful things.
I wasn’t being nice to you today.
I was pushing your boundaries and when they fell down I didn’t stop. I didn’t give any thought to how you felt and assumed I would know right away if something was wrong. I didn’t listen when you asked me if you could sit down and think for a moment.
You didn’t want to think about what you would do the next day, or the day after, but about what you wanted to get out of those days. How could it be possible to be satisfied at the end of the day while listening to me? Why take two steps backward when you could jump forward? Even though it would be impossible to see where you would end up. Because you will never know. No advice giver, fortune teller or horoscope could tell you that.
So don’t listen to me.
Try to stay still and listen to yourself. The loudest voices don’t always have to be right.
Give up the idea that every opportunity has to be pursued, and that saying ‘no’ is similar to failing. If anything, it takes courage.
Don’t listen to me, but believe in yourself. You are good enough, and you don’t have to be the best, at all. As long as you keep practicing, in being nice, in doing what you love, in standing still.
And listen, to yourself, not to me.
