This Is The Story Of The World

I’m trying to come up with a fundraising pitch but all I can really think about is the story of my life.  I’ve decided that all lives are stories and how happy we feel is how we choose to think about it.  Happiness is how we choose to connect the dots and what narrative we create.  That’s how good fundraising pitches work.  Connecting the dots to create a cohesive narrative in a way that’s compelling to someone else.

I think that’s how happiness works too.  Connecting the dots to create a compelling narrative that you’re satisfied with.

It’s also called “half empty or half full”syndrome.  Ok I just made that up.  But you know what I mean.  Optimist or pessimist?  I think anyone can decide whichever one they want to be.

Now that it feels less shit show like, I feel like my life story is becoming more cohesive.  The way I want.  So far it’s:

• Ages 0-18:
  • Girl wants to do something positive for the world but keeps getting told that she’s too young to do anything yet.
• College:
  • Girl Face- plants for the most part, but succeeds enough to get by
• The NextDrop 1.0 Years (2011-2017):
  • Repeat Face-plant but girl has enough experience/learnings/ hints of a new idea/is crazy enough to try again
• June 2017- Present:
  • Girl gets funded with the new idea and builds a team to help her succeed
    • i.e a co founder for the business who has been through fire and back with her and she trusts immensely
    • ie. a life partner for her personal life who is pretty much the Yin to her Yang, the Clyde to her Bonnie.
    • i.e. really good family & friends around the world that help her get up when she eats shit, which, turns out, is decently frequently, but that’s ok because they don’t judge.  They just laugh with her along the way and dust her off and help her up and encourage her to try again.  And they remind her that everything is going to be ok.

That is currently the story of my world.