Be Courageous

To give context in terms of obstacles, I think finding purpose was about getting out of my own way. I had really self-destructive thoughts for most of my childhood and adolescence, paralyzing thoughts like, who am I to do this? I had real impostor syndrome. I had to get that cracked open through a project. I did a film, and I was literally shaking the night it came out because I had never put myself out there like that. Thankfully, it was received really well, and I had this moment of going, I know people like what I make. Get out of your own way. I sat up at 2 in the morning and I wrote myself a letter as though I was 85, and it made me think about whether I was brave enough to tell the stories I wanted. Did I actually keep hiding behind my own insecurities and my thoughts, or did I seize this beautiful, precious life that we get in all the space and time? Come on, get over yourself, say what you want to say. That stayed with me, and I'm still doing that, still battling that sometimes.