Focus on You, Focus on Now
"Focus on you, not the future." Bless my mother for her beautiful words of wisdom. It's no secret that one of my "things" is stressing unnecessarily about literally everything, especially the future. Obviously this doesn't make me special as we all tend to stress about the future from time to time, but some of those times make me unable to eat or sleep or think straight. The thing is, I shouldn't stress. Life is great. Life is beautiful. Life will always be okay and if I've made it this far, I will likely just keep on keeping on, but sometimes I think too much about timelines. I look at the people around me and their timelines and then I think about where I should be on mine. But here’s the thing, timelines are bullshit. My friend Luke and I like to yell this a lot. We laugh about it, but it's true. We all gotta do what we gotta do on our own time. I'm so happy to see my friends getting married, buying houses, or bragging ab...