Rock Bottom

„But why losing?“ a friend asked me.

„Because failure sets me free.“

Being turned down by a woman, or having a few dollars left in my pocket and still being a reasonably happy man — that is the floor of my future. On this journey I keep walking into the fears I have carried longest: being nothing, being alone, being laughed at.

If life puts me down again and again, that is fine. We are iron, and this is the fire.

Failure takes away everything that wasn't necessary. What is left is what you actually want, and you can go at it properly, because you have stopped minding what it looks like from outside.

You can do the work you meant to do and build the thing again from the floor up.

There is no future available except the one that belongs to you.