We can't all be geniuses. But you can definitely learn and grow and innovate as you age. You can set new goals and have new dreams-and you can reach for them with an arsenal of lifetime skills that puts them well within reach.
Shedding your old skin, or turning into a butterfly, isn't effortless.
You have to make it happen. A snake may take two weeks to rebirth and emerge as a bigger, brighter, shinier version of its former self. It's an incredibly exhausting ordeal. The caterpillar too must struggle to discard its old shell and bloom into something spectacular. It's no different for humans (except that it may take far longer!).
It's great that you have so much potential; as an adult you can still have new hopes and dreams and a vision for a new kind of success in the years still before you. But you're not going to just wake up one day like
Sleeping Beauty and have the life you want. You can, however, wake up one day and begin to ask: Who do I want to be next? What dreams do I have for the rest of my life? What would fulfill me now and in the years ahead? How can I get there?
Empower yourself to think big. It's OK to consider things that are far different from anything you've ever attempted. It's OK to forget about chasing fame or money. You don't have to prove anything. And guess what? If you discover that gnawing feeling and decide that you'd like to do something new and purposeful; if you choose to go beyond your own self-indulgences, you just may open the doors to the most rewarding part of your life. "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned," said the mythology scholar Joseph Campbell, "so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
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