- What are you doing that's right?
What are you doing to add something that's just positive?
I think we get scared sometimes,
because we fit into this very formulaic pattern,
of what it means to be successful.
Our sense of identity is tied to things that we possess
and things that we own.
And our sense of fulfillment is based off of things
that come outside of us, rather than inside of us.
Nobody's telling us that, we need to be honest,
we need to be compassionate, we need to be merciful,
we need to be just, we need to be loving,
we need to be generous.
But they're telling us that our sense of worth
is based off of what it is that we drive
and how big of that thing it must be.
So you learn how to be a doctor,
you learn how to be a lawyer,
you learn how to be an engineer,
you learn how to be an artist, an activist, an academic.
But as you're learning how to be a worker,
most of us aren't really learning how to be thinkers.
We're not engaged in spaces where we're understanding,
why do we love what we love?
Or why do we hate what we hate?
Or why do we desire the things that we desire?
And your story is not your story,
when you force yourself to become someone else's story.
You are where you're coming from,
and you are where it is that you're going to.
The only person you need to compare yourself today to,
is the person you were yesterday,
and if you want to have a competition with anybody,
then make it between those two people.
You'll find yourself in a space,
where the person you are today, is no longer afraid
to meet the person that you can become tomorrow.
( soft dramatic music)