It takes a long time to obtain the necessary knowledge/skills that will allow you to achieve greatness, and of course there’s the raw talent/ability that you simply have or don’t. Envying those in a better position than you is a waste of precious time - that you could instead use to progress your own abilities. The cream always rises to the top, eventually. (could also happen after ur dead)
I can’t say when it began, but life has always been good to me. Even when I try the least. It all seems to come so easy to me. It’s like I am not even trying and I am winning. Haters will say otherwise but I don’t care. I am just doing me at the end of the day. They don’t have my ambition. That’s what feeds the beast in me. And I care alot. For my friends, my family, sometimes people I don’t even know on the street. That is why I am so successful at what I do. Believe in yourself, love yourself and love other people too. And you could even be better than me.
as it sit here reflecting on my life at ripe age of 33 i realize that pretty much everything good in my life has been the result of great persistence. of not quitting, even though it would probably feel amazing. i'm realizing i have a ****roach mindset****
you can succeed if you stick around long enough
I am trying to embody this ethos as someone who gets frustrated when I’m not immediately good at something.
I fear that in order to get better at things, we often have to suck at them for a while.
But actually, mediocrity is a phase of progress. I guess I’m saying let’s be easy on ourselves.
the best and easiest to access archive of free movies I've seen on the internet. this google drive folder has thousands of films and basically covers the entire history of tasteful, cool, and/or groundbreaking cinema. there are deep cuts like Abel Ferrara's debut feature - 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (a porno from 1970) - and classics like Barry Lyndon. There's hundreds of random DVD extras, a bunch of licensed stock footage, curated collections in folders like "Male Manipulators" and definitely a lot of stuff I haven't figured out yet. It's kind of an unorganized shit show in there but you gotta dig through dirt to find gold, so just shut up and grab ur shovel. I wish I found this when I was a teenager because it would have changed my life.