“You’re Too Hard on Yourself” & other stories of my life

During a recent conversation with a specialist, he uttered these immortal words:

“You’re too hard on yourself”.

I mean, OK. I was in to see the doctor, complaining of anxiety, which may (or may not) be related to my desire to get superhuman strength, stamina and endurance and achieve all sorts of weird and wonderful things — I’ll leave that to you, or better — the medical professionals, to decide.

But I was shocked. After I left the appointment, I repeated this phrase to my fiancee in complete disbelief.

He just simply shrugged in agreement.

My mother echoed it a couple of weeks later. Completely independent and unaware of the conversation with my doctor.

A mentor had said it a year ago.

If you haven’t already picked up on it — because I hadn’t — it’s the story of my life.

Each time someone says this to me though, I laugh quietly inside to myself. And I reject it entirely.

Like, hahaha, that’s really funny — because if it were true, maybe everything would have been accomplished…