Reblogged from cool-mint
what my parents told me: you can do anything if you set your mind to it
what I wish my parents had told me: sometimes you will fail, and it will be scary and it will suck, but you will probably not die
I would also have appreciated: the fact that you can do something if you try very, very hard, does not actually obligate you to spend your life putting forth maximum effort to achieve it. It is okay to not be 1000% driven by life-consuming ambition and instead be satisfied with something less difficult.
another important one: it is possible to fail due to circumstances beyond your control. it’s ok to be sad about it, but don’t blame yourself or convince yourself that you could have changed the outcome if only you had done this or that instead. of all the things we can’t control, the biggest is the past.













