Real. July 2, 2009

“Real self-esteem doesn’t actually stem from always being right, always succeeding, always doing well, especially not if you’ve actually failed but been told you did brilliantly anyway because everybody’s a winner in this world now, aren’t they. Real self-esteem, real belief in yourself as a person develops out of the times you survived failure. The times when you had the shit kicked out of you by people or life, but managed to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and carry on regardless.”