Don't Let Life Discourage You

Everybody goes through dealing with a bit of discouragement at least once in their lifetime. If not, end up dealing with it on a daily basis. And guess what? It is completely normal to have these feelings! You just cannot allow them get the best of you and refrain you from being the successful person that you could be because although you may feel stressed out and hopeless, anyone could be successful if they truly put their heart and mind into it.

Throughout my life, I have always dealt with feeling discouraged due to many things... Mainly because I was bullied and was constantly being told that I will never be anything in life. And although those words were extremely hurtful, I've taught myself to not be affected by hurtful words that other people say. Like I said in my bio, I am studying to be a journalist... so my ultimate goals are two things: 

1) to be a host of the New Years Eve show held in NYC (with Ryan Seacrest because he is my ultimate idol... He is literally everything that I want to be career wise)

2) I would love to be a host on E! News.

Very high expectations... However, that is what I want and I plan to work as hard as I possibly can to get as close to my goals as possible. Now being that I am studying journalism, I ALWAYS get told that I shouldn't go for that because it is extremely competitive and that it's hard to find a job in that field. And although that may be true, I don't let it stop me from pursuing what I want to be in MY life. I'm extremely passionate about what I am studying and yeah it may not be easy but nothing is ever easy. Nothing is ever just given to you. You need to work really hard at it and I believe that I can achieve anything that I seriously put my mind to. As I mentioned earlier, I was bullied... A lot. And it was absolutely terrible and degrading and it affected me greatly as I grew up. Once I graduated High School and started College, my entire view on myself changed. I began to not care about whether or not people were judging me or making fun of me for what I was doing with my life because I realized that I am not what other people say that I am and I realized that God put me on this Earth for a purpose and that I have duties to fulfill that may be different from everyone else's duties and I am okay with that. There are people out there who will try to break you down and they want to see you fail which is sad and unfortunate but it's true. But you cannot let that get to you. I've taught myself to block the hate because I know who I am and I do not need a person to try and tell me who I am and who I'm not.

Most of the time when people judge you or make fun of you, it's because they are jealous. And jealousy is a very nasty feeling. Chances are, if someone is jealous of you, you're probably doing something right with yourself because if someone is jealous and envious towards you for what you're doing, chances are, they wish that they were doing the same things that you're doing. So don't be afraid to be yourself and express how you feel because there's only one you and only one life to live so you need to make the best of it and enjoy every second of it. Just some inspiration from the heart ♡

Xoxo, Amanda ♡

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