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Holy Sh*t, I really put "Can you Related?". RELATE. CAN YOU RELATE?
I was deciding whether or not to put this in mindset and motivation, or people / relationships. I think this is more appropriate. If it's not. Plz don r4ge MJ.
This may sound a little superficial, materialistic, but here it goes.
Every year I go to the Philly Auto Show, seeing all of the crazy cars gives me motivation to create that type of lifestyle for myself. Not so much as being flashy and "look at me", but knowing that if you REALLY want something, you can get it.
I remember going up to the section with Lamborghini's, Bently's, Aston Martins, Ect, and seeing people just flocking around them and making jokes like "Hey man, I'll be picking mine up next week!". And then everyone started laughing.
Now, something rings off as being SO intimidating and SO hopeless, when every single person surrounding that (Well at least the ones vocalizing their thoughts) and really only joking and teasing each other about ever being able to acquire such a thing. The word really is - hopeless.
It's that huge mentality of everyone combined that makes you almost second guess yourself "Damn, this guy in his 50's can't even afford it, I'm in my 20's, so who's to say I can?".
Granted, besides the materialistic stuff, I KNOW I will create my dream lifestyle. Hell, I'm doing it right now. Not as fast as some of you, but I'd like to think starting at 20 and failing a lot is ok, just as long as I'm doing it.
This is not saying that people who want to live their own lifestyle are inferior at all. It is simply such an overwhelming mindset of "I'll NEVER have that, might as well joke about it", that possesses me for a small amount of time and saturates my mind with self doubt.
I was deciding whether or not to put this in mindset and motivation, or people / relationships. I think this is more appropriate. If it's not. Plz don r4ge MJ.
This may sound a little superficial, materialistic, but here it goes.
Every year I go to the Philly Auto Show, seeing all of the crazy cars gives me motivation to create that type of lifestyle for myself. Not so much as being flashy and "look at me", but knowing that if you REALLY want something, you can get it.
I remember going up to the section with Lamborghini's, Bently's, Aston Martins, Ect, and seeing people just flocking around them and making jokes like "Hey man, I'll be picking mine up next week!". And then everyone started laughing.
Now, something rings off as being SO intimidating and SO hopeless, when every single person surrounding that (Well at least the ones vocalizing their thoughts) and really only joking and teasing each other about ever being able to acquire such a thing. The word really is - hopeless.
It's that huge mentality of everyone combined that makes you almost second guess yourself "Damn, this guy in his 50's can't even afford it, I'm in my 20's, so who's to say I can?".
Granted, besides the materialistic stuff, I KNOW I will create my dream lifestyle. Hell, I'm doing it right now. Not as fast as some of you, but I'd like to think starting at 20 and failing a lot is ok, just as long as I'm doing it.
This is not saying that people who want to live their own lifestyle are inferior at all. It is simply such an overwhelming mindset of "I'll NEVER have that, might as well joke about it", that possesses me for a small amount of time and saturates my mind with self doubt.
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