In this episode, we sit in a tiny open-air loft in a sold-out, noisy hostel in northern Guatemala and talk about some of the things I am learning about myself and about life on this trip.
For the longest time I wanted to be someone else. I spent days, weeks, years waiting and hoping for my magical transformation into the better person I always wished I could have been born to be... the smarter, more handsome, competent, courageous, social stranger I somehow thought was the man I SHOULD be.
I am now realizing it is ok to be... who you are. To improve, grow, become a better version of yourself, these are all wonderful things in which I still believe wholeheartedly. But to wish to be and to suffer as a product of not being someone you just are not... that hurts and it is counterproductive to a life well lived.
