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Growth and Gratitude: Turning 31 (That Means, I'm Old—Right?)

Publicado el 13, ene., 2021 Actualizado 13, ene., 2021 Cultura

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Growth and Gratitude: Turning 31 (That Means, I'm Old—Right?)

Luis Campos

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I started last year with an existential crisis about turning 30 years old. Turning three-decades-old made me feel as if my youth had passed me by and all my chances at being a successful man were over. However, the dread of being 30 motivated me to reassess my life and helped me boost my writing career in ways that I had never before imagine. Had it never been for the lows with which I began 2020, I would have never been crazy enough to attempt a writing project that I thought I was doomed to fail — writing 30 articles in 30 days.

Some people told me that failing at this large project was only going to make my depression worse. They told me that it was better to do nothing than to do something and fail. In my heart, I knew they were wrong. Many times in my life, the fear of failure had