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This past week, I was visiting New York City with my family. Coming from a small town, I quickly realized the beauty in knowing absolutely no one around me. Within minutes, a hundred people would walk by me — they had no idea who I was and would have no memory of me. In my town, if a hundred people walked by me, I’d know at least twenty. If I do anything unexpected, I am sure that my mom will know about it before I get home. There’s no freedom.
In the city, though, I had a chance at anonymity — the perfect answer to my ongoing struggle in finding my next path. I’ve been trying to live a non-linear life. Instead of getting some internship because that’s the next step in my career path or working a job that I go to everyday, I chose to spend my mornings thinking and writing and my evenings as a delivery driver.
While I originally was excited to take this on, it’s really uncomfortable. But, that’s the point. I want to find an inflection point in my life — a small moment that has an outsized impact on my future, shifting everything towards a new goal.
I don’t want to live the life everyone is telling me to live. I want to carve my own path.
Sitting at a table at a coffee shop with my 3x5 notebook and Seth Godin’s The Dip in hand, I decided to stop wanting the world to happen to me. Instead of looking for…
