The beauty of being a misfit

You see, I'm trying to tell you something about people like me.

Misfit people - we don't always know how to hope or say yes or choose the big thing even when it's right in front of us. It's the shame we carry, It's the shame of wanting something good. It's the shame of feeling something good. It's the shame of not really believing we deserve to be in the room with the people we admire. If I could, I'd go back and I'd coach myself. I'd teach myself how to want things, how to stand up, how to ask for them.

There's a myth in most cultures about following your dreams. It's called 'the hero's journey'. But I prefer a different myth that's slightly to the side of that or underneath it. It's called 'the misfit's myth'. And it goes like this ; even at the moment of your failure, right then, you are beautiful. You don't know it yet, but you have the ability to reinvent yourself endlessly. That's your beauty.