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If You Feel As If Your Life Isn’t Going Anywhere
Let go of control.
Sometimes I feel like I am not going anywhere.
Like I don’t know myself and that there are too many options to follow. I can’t stick to any one option for too long. I am too impatient.
And then I remind myself of one of my heroes, Kevin Kelly.
When he was my age, he was literally lost. Of course, back then (in the 60s-70s), the word ‘success’ wasn’t as frequently used or thought of today. But I am sure he had his own share of discomfort about his foggy future.
He dropped out of college and went to roam Asia until he was 27. Working odd jobs, no college degree, no idea about who he wants to be when he ‘grows up,’ he bartended in the U.S. to save up some cash and go back to bicycling around Thailand.
If you were to meet Kelly then, you’d probably call him a loser, a bum, a delusional hippie.
Today Kevin is the founder of Wired magazine — the largest tech publication in the world. He is the author of multiple books on technology, innovation, the future. He is a thinker, a doer, a maker, and a great human being, from what I see . He is 68 years old and calls himself a happy person.
