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How to Become Awesome, Fast
The not-so-obvious advice to getting “there”.
I am awesome.
I just became awesome a year ago, though. Still getting used to it.
The 32 years before that, I was stuck in the body of an average person, if a fun one.
Here’s how I crossed that bridge, and how you can too if you dare to.
Get exhausted and poor.
“I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
To buy the home we now live in — a 3 bedroom condo, pretty great, but not that great — we had to give every last penny of our savings; ask my husband’s family for a loan; include the smaller apartment I inherited from my dad in the mortgage and beg banks for alright conditions.