Do you also keep feeling
that you weren’t meant to be just this?
That you should be stronger, more successful?
Now let me tell you about
a “cheat code” that can change your life.
From now on,
stop fantasizing, stop trying to catch up with that person —
play them instead.
That more successful, stronger you is not a fantasy.
They are the you who already exists in the future, the you who will surely come to be.
So we aren’t playing the part to catch up;
we play it to calibrate —
to speed up, to draw ever closer to them.
As soon as you start playing them,
you will arrange your time and energy around their goals;
you will choose by their standards
your partner, your work, your colleagues;
you will see the people and things around you
with their understanding and their way of thinking.
And as you keep playing,
playing and playing,
one day you will suddenly find
that you have merged with that stronger, more successful self you once only imagined.
You are finally back where you belong.