The one sentence that changed my life.

Have you ever been told that you´ve changed? I have. And it´s the best thing that has ever happened to me.

Even though I know a lot of people, I can´t say that they are my friends. I consider only about 3 people to be my real friends, but it hasn´t always been that way.

I used to hang out with the cool guys from school. I went to parties and social events with them. They were my “friends”. Suddenly, I started to realize that they just didn´t have the same interests as I did. Of course I liked to party; but I also liked to speak my mind, read about the latest technological advances, or play soccer in the afternoon. When I spoke to them about my projects and ambitions, none of them seemed to be interested in them. I felt like I was speaking to myself. They didn´t seem to have any interesting to say other that what their last shot tasted like. That´s when I started to think about who my real friends were; who were the people with whom I wanted to spend my time with.

I started rejecting their invitations and started speaking to other guys that seemed to have more in common with me. That´s when I heard the phrase “you´ve changed” for the first time. It kind of hit me, to hear from someone whom I´ve spent the majority of my experiences with to say that I was no longer the same. It just felt as if I was being rejected in some way. As if had taken another path, and in some way, I did.

I took these 3 words very seriously, and decided to stop pretending to be someone I wasn´t. I started reading more and more, I played soccer 5 times a week (including Fridays), I enrolled in entrepreneurship courses, and even in a Solar Panel company. I started chasing my dreams; giving my life the meaning I had always dreamed of giving it. I started talking to people I had never imagined I would ever talk to, and they seemed to be really interesting. I went to museums, I started watching YouTube videos about the Universe and irrational numbers, I started being true to myself.

It´s been about 6 months since I decided to stop worrying about people´s opinions are start making my own life, and I don´t regret a thing.

Of course my life is not full of sunshine and rainbows: my love life is still a mess, I still have emotional problems, and I lost some confidence. I have less people to talk to, and less parties to go out to.

But I learned my lesson. I realized I was living someone else´s life and not the life that I wanted to live. Now, when people tell me “you´ve changed”, I just smile, and say “thank you”.