These experiences pile up.  They create anxiety.  Depression.  Embarrassment.  Guilt.  Despair.  For me most of all, shame.  You feel like a fucking failure.  Not “someone who failed”, but A FAILURE, like it is actually who you are.  Failure is your Essence.

I believe that inside every one us is a bad-ass motherfucker, just waiting to bust out and live our passion, and let our freak flag fly, and be awesome, and the world is your oyster, and all that awesome shit.  But, so many people today — literally millions and millions and millions — are preventing themselves from doing so.