Being your own role model

I had a thought in the last few days that may just change my life. There I was, curled up in bed feeling lonely and so deeply uncertain. There were sensations of fear and of pain – for myself and for my fellow people. Something about this isolation amplifies all of these feelings. I’d become used to running from them – distracting myself with the passive consumption of content. 

And I realized that I was doing what I had been conditioning myself to do across the last decade of my life. This is where the illuminating thought came up… ‘What if I became the role model that I never had growing up?’ What if I acted and developed in such a way that I would be setting the best possible example for my younger self.

What would I be like? What would I think? What choices would I make if I were someone that I could really look up to at age 14? This is something that I know will shape my conscientiousness in a new way. How would you be if you wanted to be your 14 year old role model?