Taken from JRE #1437 w/Stephen Dubner: https://youtu.be/DETj3ncN19g
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Taken from JRE #1437 w/Stephen Dubner: https://youtu.be/DETj3ncN19g
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All the mistakes and failures experienced led to me today. The character development, values, and life lessons strengthen us as a person.
In those moment of failures it was HARD to appreciate them for what they are. Given it enough time to reflect…and we realize how much we all have grown over time.
People who never experienced true defeat tend to say the silliest things such as these. True defeat cripples you. It doesn't give you anything at all in return and It makes you stay away from it. If you think it changed you otherwise, it's because that's not true defeat but an inconvenience.
I was depressed basically my whole life, since i was a litle kid I remember having this feeling that life had no meaning to me, I was hurt, But I kept going, like nothing happened. I was always wondering, why the other kids are happy and not me, I don´t feel good, So I started at a very young age to smoke cigarretes, drinking, masturbate, smoking weed, you know, anything that could make me feel any better. today I can say that the only thing that I really needed was someone to talk, someone who could tell me, everything is gonna be ok, don´t worry. I needed love. So yeah, my selfsteem was on the floor, and even other people seem notice my problem. they did not care. Anyways, few years ago I suffered a very serious psychotic episode, I collapsed really bad, my depresion, stress and adictions ended up doing their thing in my body and it was a terrible situation, I almost died twice in a very desesperate way. But, today, I´m felling good, healthy, happy and strong , a little bit alone but that´s ok, I came back from hell and I'm going for my rematch, now with a whole new mentality, I lost friends, girlfriends and family on the way but im sure just like Joe said, sometimes you need to lose, just to remember those things in my case I almost lost everthing, even my life. but it was necessary. Now, I want to be that person that I needes so bad when i was young, I want to give hope to those who are in pain, if Jesus our Savior let me, I want to do my part, and help, the whole world needs more love, more than ever.
I’m 18 and my parents were both severely mentally and physically abusive. I moved out at 17 and ended up dropping out of college, getting T-boned and totalling my car I work 4 years to save up for and then I moved in with my sister whose BF sexually assaulted me so that was nice. But anyways, I was adopted by my wrestling coach of 7 years and now I’m going back to college in September for free with scholarships/bursaries. Don’t lose hope people, there’s always hope, have faith <3
The only way up is down