Prologue 0.2
Before getting to your dream life, there is one big step.
“Your brain identifies who you are by the stuff that you do.”
When my best friend told me that, I had to take a minute to let it sink in. I knew this fact already but to put it into words like that? It hit me, in a wonderful and loving way.
I have wasted years of my life for perfection. Waiting for my art skills to be perfect, for my surroundings to be perfect, for my job to be perfect, for my videography to be perfect. And for myself to be perfect. The worst kinda perfect to demand.
Waiting for perfection along with getting lost in faraway dreams, held me back from actually living the life that I always wanted. But before I could overcome these steps in my journey, I had to first overcome my brain.
What do I mean?
Have you ever felt like your brain has been going a million miles a minute? And the loudness in there is so chaotic that there is a random song playing in the background just to keep everything sane? Have you ever told yourself: I wish I could just switch off my brain?
Yeah, me too. And it can get worse and worse as we believe that there is nothing to be done and this is it. Or we take the numbing medications our therapist gives us and it somehow feels even worse.* Or we go on to just pull through our lives, distract ourselves, and get drowned in every possible outlet out there.
That’s what I had to overcome before even thinking about a dream life being a possibility. No life would be dreamy with a brain that loud and mean and heavy.
“But wait… does that mean, you overcame it?!”
Yes. Yes indeed. And you can too.
* This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take your medications or stop, it is only a validation of what it feels in case it is the same for you. However, it is all dependent on each individual. This is not medical advice. Work on this WITH your therapist.
Prologue 0.3 will be continuing on this.
Coming out on December 27th, 2024.
Thank you for reading🤍
Sending so much love,
Pegah SM.