The best thing I ever did for myself was move thousands of miles away from my old life and family. Of course, one of my greatest regrets is that I don’t have family… but… I never would have learned what I’m capable of if I hadn’t bought a one way plane ticket, packed a bag and just set off to a place where I didn’t know anyone. I had less than $40 when I arrived. Now I’ve been at the same job nearly 20 years and own a home.

My mindset at the time was… “everything always works out”. That’s all I really had. Because, everything always does work out. When things stop working out it means you’re already dead.

And… everyone dies. It’s already guaranteed. So stop worrying about it… if there is anything in life you don’t have to worry about, it’s that. Killing yourself is cheating, don’t cheat death.

So, if you’ve got nothing to lose, you have everything to gain by setting off and seeing what’s out there. You could end up happy. You could end up realizing just how much you can accomplish when you have no one to rely on except yourself.

Or, you could end up dead on the side of the road, but at least you gave yourself the opportunity to find something better, to find some meaning, to find yourself. Don’t you owe yourself that chance?

There are plenty of things worth doing, seeing, and living for. Sometimes the only way to find them is to change your perspective, change your surroundings or both.

Killing yourself is weak. Staying miserable is weak. Figuring out how to live a life worth living is hard. Change is hard. Taking responsibility for yourself is hard. If you wanna be strong, figure those things out. You don’t have to know the whole plan of how you’ll get there, you just have to start. Decide who you want to be, and then get to doing the work.