WHY YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING, EVER

When I see this, or, every time I remember this, I get happy. Now, that's because I whole-heartedly believe what it's saying. And if you don't believe it, you're probably thinking it's impossible, which is fairly normal considering how we grow up in society. It's almost like all we're ever taught growing up is to worry, and how to worry, and when to worry, but never why. And when we grow up, we sort of have it ingrained in us already. We're supposed to be worrying about something at any given moment, not even knowing why, and we start to worry if we're not worrying about something, wondering if there's something we should be worried about.
But now I kind of want to break down what it is we're really worried about. We're worried about grades, where we're going to go to school, how much money we're going to have, where we're going to live, what we're going to be doing in ten years, and especially how we look. Why are we so worried about these things? Because we've established expectations for ourselves, standards of what we think is perfect, what we think our lives have to be like. And we spend every second of our lives worrying about meeting these expectations. Now I want you for a moment to get rid of all these expectations you know you've placed on yourself, get rid of your perfect school, your perfect car, your perfect image, your perfect life, and just see yourself right now, in the present moment. Do you really have anything to worry about?
What we do too often is try to control the natural way of life, with these ideal images in our heads of how we think life should be. But have you ever thought that maybe if you didn't have all these expectations on how you want your life to turn out, just let life take its course and whatever happens happens, then you wouldn't be so worried about everything, and you could actually enjoy whatever life threw your way, because it was probably meant to be anyways. And when I think about how much I want to get into NYU and move to New York and live there, I do get excited, but I don't really worry about it. Because even if I don't get in and I end up somewhere completely different, it's probably where I was meant to be in the first place because sometimes, life knows a lot more than you do.