# For Those Waiting for Life to Happen  ## About - Author: Life Of Riza - Title: For Those Waiting for Life to Happen - Tags: #articles - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij84DoCEmdI ## Highlights > I like the notion that everyone has to live for themselves, and not wait around for someone to tell them who they are. We can sit around and feel bad and blame other people for what they did or didn't do, or blame ourselves for things we've never told them. But in the end, life doesn't stop for anybody. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hfqkeekx4m91yh26v2rf77dj)) For some reason this is extremely challenging to come to grips with. Ultimately the only person we can change is ourself. --- > We watch movies and hope that life is as fluidand calculated as it is on screen,either this or that, with a clear outcome of each decision they make.It's like looking into a mirrorand seeing how you'd want everything to be.And we hear things that hit our heartstringsand watch stories with pieces of us in it.And we look at it as a guide to lifewhen, really, it's just an altered version of it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hft62h45ktd5ztmfpccbjbgf)) ---