Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don’t let anyone put you in a box. – Daya

Believing in yourself can be hard.  Going after your dreams can be scar.  But letting yourself break out of the box that others try and put you in is probably one of the hardest things of all.

There are always so many expectations for us, and they’re not always expectations we set for ourselves.  Other people do it for us, and a lot of times we don’t even realize they’re doing it.  We also don’t realize we do it to other people.  I’m thinking right now back to when I was a kid in school.  All the teachers ever talked about to us was going to college.  Well in addition to what they taught us.  But everything we did or learned was geared toward going to college. So I went to college.  Don’t get me wrong, I love being a teacher and I couldn’t have done that without college, but I wasn’t really encouraged to try anything different.  Maybe I would have made an amazing mechanic.  We’ll never know because I didn’t break out of the box my teachers put me in.

When we’re little kids, we think we’re going to grow up to be anything we want and to do everything we want.  There is no limit to the things we imagine ourselves doing.  But little by little we grow and society (or the people around us) start putting us into the boxes they think we best fit into.  Break out of the box.  Life the life you’re dreaming of and not the life that others want for you.