We’ ve been fed the same script since we were in diapers: Wait pretty. Get picked. Then— bam!— you’ ll be fulfilled, validated, and living your perfect life with a prince in a palace. Let’ s be clear: That’ s not a story, it’ s a cage.( Spoiler alert: That’ s not how happiness really works.) for societal expectations. Rip up the script. Write something wild and wonderfully yours. We’ re not passive characters in someone else’ s plotline.

Power move: Grab your journal and write a new happily ever after. Your real dream life— not the one you were taught to want.

If you want to live joyfully, you have to become the author of your own life. Not a ghostwriter