In my youth, I had more of an entitled approach to work and life. I think it’s because I was raised in a family of relative means. Our family worried about a lot of things, but money wasn’t necessarily one of them. I’m educated mostly at private schools, after all. But when I was younger, I noticed I felt a stronger sense of entitlement than at a more mature age. It’s a feeling that is a double-edged sword. On one hand, feeling like I was invincible led me to possess a lot of energy to experiment. On the other, I ended up taking a lot of unnecessary risks that led to the feeling of being a bit “behind” in life. I’m going off tangent here, but I think the point I wanted to make is that, when I was younger, I had the feeling that everything will just work out, that somehow, people will just bend over backwards to appease my every desire. This was perhaps a product of being raised in a more coddled upbringing and is certainly not reflective of the real world. In reality, one has to take action. It’s easy to covet things, it’s much more difficult to take action.
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[…] But now that I’ve expressed some vulnerability, perhaps it’s time to work on the business side. One of criticisms I had in college was that I was not a particularly proactive person. I think that may have just been with girls–and the reason is quite obvious at this point if you’ve read any of my older posts. I didn’t want to get too good with girls because I knew I would be more-or-less forced to make a commitment. Because I am gay, I naturally don’t get nervous around pretty girls in the way that I’ve observed some of my heterosexual friends to get. I wanted them to have first pick because, quite frankly, I wasn’t focusing on love in college. I assumed that everything would just work itself out, which, in retrospect, is a very coddled way of thinking (See You can’t expect the world to bow down to you). […]
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