Do not blame the world for what goes wrong with your life

You blame the world because it relinquishes you of your responsibility. You can’t change the world, and you know it. You just want to be a victim and not try harder to fix your current state.

If you admit that perhaps it is not the world that needs changing but it is yourself, you would need to get off your ass and change and struggle, which would expend way more effort than you’re used to. You would need to reevaluate your whole life and the habits that you’re so used to. You would need to admit that you’re lazy and you’re constantly lying and deceiving yourself so that you can wallow in your laziness.

I tried my best to be the person that I wanted to be, the person that I could be, the person that I was to become. I realized that the only way to become the person that I wanted to be was to act like I was already the person I wanted to become.

If I wanted to become someone who was friendly, great at holding conversations, and was an interesting person to talk to, I would have to actively practice being that person every day.

If I wanted to become someone who worked hard, did not take shortcuts, and took every learning opportunity that presented itself, I would have to actively practice being that person every day.

If I wanted to become someone who didn’t live his life dreaming, only talking about his ambitions but never putting them into action, but persistently chased his dream to become a writer, I would have to actively practice being that person every day.

I realized that every morning is a different battle. Every morning you can choose to see the world in a different manner. Every morning you can choose to act like the person you wish to become, that you must become.

I may have felt motivated today and felt like everything went my way today, but there will be days where things fall apart and my whole world comes crashing down. On those days I must persevere and hold onto my world view. I must realize that there will always be days of suffering, that life is a series of ups and downs, and that what goes up must come down.

If you saw every experience in your life as an opportunity to make something beautiful happen, your life will be full of beautiful things. You have the ability to choose how you view the world. You have the ability to change the world by changing yourself.

Is it a place full of endless possibilities, or is it a place that is against you and only wants to watch you suffer?

It is entirely up to you. But it doesn’t end with you changing your perception. It starts with you changing the way you live your life.

Act like the person you want to become and you will become that person.

Choose to see the world as you’d like it to be and so it shall become.

- from William Cho's drafts.