Ever felt like you're falling behind in life? Like you're stuck in a hamster wheel, chasing milestones you should have reached by now? You're not alone, Struggleberries. Join me, Teriyana, as we wrestle with this all-too-familiar pressure in our latest clip of Struggle Berry Crunch. We'll navigate through my personal journey of coming to terms with unmet expectations, especially as my 30th birthday looms. I'll share how societal pressures and comparison rob us of joy, and we'll explore how to reclaim it by embracing our unique paths.
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Teriyana:
You're listening to Struggleberry Crunch with your host, Teriyana. Hello Struggleberrys, welcome to Struggle Berry Crunch, the best podcast to help you navigate your life and explore the flavor of your struggle. If you're new here, my name is Teriyana and I love to upload content that helps people through everyday life situations, especially struggles, and this particular recording that I do is where I try to get us through this week, and when I say us, I mean me as well, because I need to hear these messages too and remind myself that I'm doing okay. I'm doing better than I think I am. So the topic that I want to talk about today is feeling behind in life. Does that sound familiar to you? Is that how you feel at all in your life right now?
Teriyana:
A lot of times we feel behind in life. We are thinking that we don't have a lot of accomplishments that we should have by now, like, for example, by 25, I need to have three houses, eight kids, a family husband, be in the Fortune 500 and have 10 dogs. You know that kind of behind in life. But in reality, we're just going through life and taking life as it comes. For example, we set our lives out when we are 18, thinking that some of us think that we're going to be going to college and then we're going to get our master's degree and then we're going to get a job at this big company. Other people think that they're going to get a job right away. They're going to be working on this business. Then by this age, they're going to have all of their ducks in a row to move to London. Who knows? Who knows what the goals are? Who knows what people are trying to accomplish? But life doesn't stop life in. We have this goal to go to school, but we just lost our job and our family can't afford to send us. We have this goal to get married by a certain age or have children, but we just found out we couldn't have kids. We have this goal to have this incredible life, but we're so fixated on the plan that we set that we don't allow the beauty of life to show us how far we've already come. Then we end up seeing that we are behind life In struggle.
Teriyana:
Barry, as bad as I want to think that I am behind in life, I have to come on this microphone and tell myself that that's not true. Yes, I'm going to be 30 next year and I don't have the house I want, yet I don't have the husband I want, yet I don't have children yet. I don't have the dream career I want, yet I haven't been to the countries I want to be to, yet I haven't made the money that I want to make yet. There's a lot of things that I'm still working towards and it seems like I should have this all together right, because all of my friends do so. It seems there. It is right there.
Teriyana:
The number one killer of our joy, our aspirations and the growth that we've already made even though life keeps life in is comparison. We see everything on the outside and I guess that's what social media has done to us is just seeing glamour constantly in our faces, how we need to be in a certain space, how we can't stick to our own plan. We want to borrow other people's plan because we want what they have, but maybe we're not meant to have it like how they got it. Think about that. If you allow life to where it's the reason why you can't move forward, you're always going to feel behind in life. We don't know how much we have time-wise on this earth, we don't know what is in store for us, but if we keep believing that life, the universe, god, whatever you may believe, is not out to get us. It's just being in life. We have so much more power to grow stronger and go through things so we can get the things that we want and the way we were meant to get them.
Teriyana:
Feeling behind in life sucks, especially when you feel like you're watching people live your dream.
Teriyana:
Do the things you want to do, learn the things you want to learn, feel the happiness that they feel.
Teriyana:
We have that infinite power inside of us and sometimes, or maybe I should say most of the time, life is a test to help bring it out of us, show us that it was there all along and that if we just waited just a little bit longer, we would have known that we were happier getting it later than at the time where life was life in and we had no control. So, struggleberries, I want you to think about. Why do you feel behind in life? What or who do you think you are comparing yourself to? That's making you not take action, to continue to go after the things that you want, even if you didn't hit the imaginary milestone that you were thinking that you were going to hit when you were 18?. How are you going to embrace this problem, find a solution and take action For real this time? Life can be complicated, struggleberries, but we can choose how we solve the puzzle in our own way. Until we meet again, struggleberries, have a good week and let life keep life in Bye.