Andreas Vlach

A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything.

It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully average at most of the rest.

It’s like walking around with a metal detector over your own life, waiting for those little “beeps” of intensity.

Most of our self–doubt comes from comparing our messy inner world to everyone else’s polished exterior.

You know your whole chaotic inner life.
You only see everyone else’s edit.

So if you sometimes worry you’re a fraud, that isn’t proof you’re fake.
It’s proof you’re honest enough to notice the gap.

I am not telling you to make the world better. I’m just telling you to live in it.

Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it.
To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment.

 Joan Didion