Alex Gager

Every person who wants to do something in their life or has done something with their life is going through the exact chapter you’re going through right now…and it’s the lonely chapter. It’s the chapter where you don’t fit in with your old friends but you don’t have the achievements yet to fit in with a new group of friends. And you’re doing all this stuff. The free tutorials online and reading everything you can to try and set up a whatever you’re working on. And you’re going through it and thinking to yourself “is this even worth it?” Because you’re seeing no signs of success. But the sign of success is the hate you get along the way. And what you can’t do is bend the knee to their hate and try to fit back in and conform because it’s comfortable and it’s warm. It’s like the scene in the matrix when Trinity opens the door when Neo’s about to go take the red pill, he wants to get out of the car. And trinity says “You’ve been down there Neo. You know that road. And you know exactly where it ends. And I know that’s not where you wanna be.” Then he closes the door. Right now. This moment that you’re going through is Trinity opening the door and saying ‘you could go back. But then you’d remember exactly why you left.’ So you listen to the podcasts. You read the tweets. Watch the videos. Consume the content. Because you know - deep down - “I can do more than this.” And you begin to see the person that you could be. And realize how far you need to go. But despite how far away it seems, you look back down the dead end road and know that’s not where you wanna be. And so you keep going. realize there’s no turning back.

You can have less and less in common with someone. Just like strangers become friends. Friends can become strangers. And it’s okay.

“Because it’s hard” is never an acceptable reason to give up.