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Fly High


...is what I had tattooed on my stomach after going through a minor depression in my early twenties.

To a lot of people, Fly High is just another type of YOLO statement, a cliche, two words bearing little to no meaning, but to me personally it means everything.

There was a period in my life where I felt I was worthless, a screw-up; a failure that was never going to amount to anything.

I was depressed and lonely.
I was angry with myself.
I was angry at the world.
I felt like I was drowning in my grief from all these strong emotions I had never experienced before.

During the daytime hours, I was isolating myself from friends and family because of the shame. And at night, I was crying myself to sleep because of the pain.

I thought about running away from everybody and everything, hoping that would somehow fix the situation I was in. I just wanted to slip off into Oblivion... Into nothingness.

This went on for almost 4 months.

Then one day, as I was sitting in my car parked out by the lake where I would go to contemplate (aka: to feel sorry for myself), a revelation hit me!

The only person who could ever save me from this downward spiral of pity and self loathing was ME! No one was going to step in and show me how to rebuild what was broken. Nothing was going to miraculously happen that would in turn repair all the damage that had been done. 

 If I wanted to get back to living I had to man up and take back my life! If I wanted a change in direction, I needed to take action!

And it was in that very instant, I realized I was done living in sadness.

No longer would I be crying about my past. The negative thoughts consuming my mind could not and would not control me any further. Their power over me was gone! There would be no more hovering slightly above the ground. From that moment on, I took an oath to Fly High.

Learn from me...
Don't let anything or anyone hold you back from living your life to the fullest! You only have one to live so make the most of it!

"The only thing limiting us in life
Is our belief that there are limits."

So FLY HIGH!!!



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