For a long time, since I was a kid, I always saw things differently then anybody else around me. While my friends where out partying, getting jobs and getting themselves into the predictable mold that society expects from its citizens, I was tending my internal gardens. For instance, while my friends where out partying, I was too busy teaching myself 3D animation, getting a commercial pilot license, achieving a black belt in Karate- even receiving my open water certificate in scuba diving among many other things. I didn’t understand why I was this way, my parents where always there for me and supported me but I never had any desire for an ordinary 9-5 life that my friends so wanted.
I am almost 30 years old, had some amazing times in my life and some very tough ones so far - all of which makes me who I am today. I am very proud of myself but I never could put into words the internal drive I have felt since I was a child. I don’t suffer from perfectionism- but a constant drive to exceed yesterdays potential beyond all odds. The harder the goal, the more my thirst to achieve and conquer it is.
On the 18th of November I watched a movie that began with the following saying:
“The meaning of life is not simply to exist. It is to move ahead. To go up. To achieve. To conquer.”
For the first time in my life, I am able to put into words what I have been feeling for as long as I can remember. The quote is from Arnold Schwarzenegger back in 1977 from “See Arnold Run”, I now feel in very good company.
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