8-bit Cubone

Realisation

If you ever want something badly all you have to do is follow a couple of simple rules.

1. Put in effort
2. Make connections with people (you never know who knows who)
3. gives things a go
4. push through the hard times

If you follow these things you can achieve anything you want. If you dont believe me read my story:

While growing up I dreamt of being healthy, having a lovely wife, a job I love and a higher education. I wasn’t the richest family in town, in fact, some weeks we struggled to make a sandwich for lunch. My family wasn’t the most perfect with my dad and his addiction and the troubles that caused, the constant moving and all the job hopping my parents did. I wasn’t explicitly told but was pretty much shown if you are born into a shitty family then thats the level of class you will stay at for the rest of your life. My parents eventually broke up after a very violent fight only a year after two of my younger brothers were born and this again showed me relationships dont work out and if they do then there are fights all the time. By the time I got into high school (12/13 years old) I weighed about 100kg, was entering depression, suffered from insomnia and had OCD. Not a good start to life.

It took me a few years to realise this but all you have to do to change your mindset on life and everything will follow. I am now in my second year at university studying graphic design and marketing, I am engaged to my lovely girlfriend Alayna who I’ve been dating for 3 years now, I’m now healthy and fit and weigh just over 70kg, I don’t have depression or insomnia any more, slowly getting over my OCD and I have been working at my dream job for 6 months now after years of applying. But not only am I working there but I’m being trained up as manager!

In the middle of high school (when I was about 15) this was my 10 year goal: To be healthy, be studying, have a girlfriend and at least have a foot in the door or know someone working at my dream job. - DONE.

But theres one more thing I want to add… If you think I’m in my mid to late 20s you’re wrong. I had a realisation at the end of high school (when I was 17) and thought “Why did I give myself so god damn long to complete that…? My new goal is 5 years!”.

I turn 19 in four days.

If I can do it, you can do it too. Believe in yourself.