It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else.

4/3/2025

As my first official blog post, I was scouring my brain on a topic that’s important to me, but also probably important to you. Until I realized that I was overlooking the single phrase that repeats in my head on the daily — it doesn’t have to make sense to anyone but you. 

While broad, this can be applicable to nearly anything, which is why I consistently think about it in all aspects of my own life. Take your social media more seriously, launch a business, move to a different country, try to learn a new language for fun, take a job that earns less just because you love it. Anything. Your logic and reasoning does not need to be sound to another person for it to make sense to you. As long as you are confident in who you are and what you’re doing, the opinions of others cannot touch you, unless you allow them to. 

Stay confident in your craft, and don’t be afraid to take risks and do what makes you happy just because you’re afraid others around you will disapprove or question your line of reasoning behind it. Your motives should be unique to you, and you do not need the approval of others to be successful. 

Take this as a sign to start doing whatever it is you’ve been putting off because it’s “not a good time” or because you have a lot of other things on your plate. Make room on the plate. If it’s important to you, do not shy away because you don’t feel you’re in a position in your life to pursue — especially if that position contains people who downplay what you want out of life. Time moves so quickly and will pass you by before you know it. You do not want to look back on your life and wish you had started earlier, or started period.

Take me for example: While I may be learning Dutch for family, I have dreams of learning Italian & French. Why? Because I enjoy it and believe it would be fun. For some people, this would seem like an entire waste of time, given that I’ve been to France once, and live nowhere near the two countries. But to me, I see the value in learning different languages as a way to experience the world. If someone only wishes to know one language, that is perfectly fine, but that will not hinder me from how I choose to spend my time and my success revolving the topic.

Remember, it doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else. It only has to make sense to you. Life’s short. Take risks. Dream big. And just try. 

You never know what success is waiting for you when you tune out everyone else, and focus solely on you.