You want something, but you don’t know where to go or how to start. So instead of looking or taking risks to find out you follow along with what you think you’re “supposed” to do in life, waiting and hoping for what you really want to just miraculously pop up somewhere along the path to what you believe is correct.

For some reason you think life happens TO you and that the only way to get happiness is for you to distract yourself until everything just happens to go right, or until you’re “ready”

A greeting like “How’s the day treating you” sounds normal, disregarding the complete lack of presence such a statement holds. You believe phrases like “people suck”, “Life is hard”, and “That’s just how I am” or “I can’t help it.” Self-depreciating humor is your favorite to use because it indulges your need to be seen as a “favorable victim”.

It’s weak.

It’s cowardly.

It’s sad.

and you know it.

You’re on a raft in the middle of the ocean and you’re only comfortable with picking a direction at random and hoping to find land. Worse, you’re not even using a sail or rowing. You let the waves push you where they will. You cheer when they carry you the right way, and complain when they push you the wrong. You’re doing JUST ENOUGH to stay afloat. waiting. hoping.

Are you really confident that happiness works this way?

Are you even confident? about anything? Are you able to define confidence without looking it up? Do you know how to get it? Do you believe the ridiculous notion that confidence is something people are born with?

You’re not a failure for the reason you think.

You’re not a failure because you suck at the game called life.

You’re a failure because you haven’t even been playing. Everyone sucks at the games they don’t play.

So what do you do with this info?

Why not just…play?

you have all kinds of games to play. Want to try a fitness/weight loss game? how about a career-building game? Dating? Parenting? Leadership?

happiness?

If there’s something you want, there’s a game for it. Consider me the game console

You can keep staring at the title screen (or let it be your game over), but you know how that ends.

or

you can just