You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.
There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.
When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment.
I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to understand... I had to reinvent a system, find a way out, and set some rules that could work for me and a few others. I guess in the end that's what we all are trying to do.
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
