Dont Stop Believing - Blog Posts
*Piano starts*
Cabba: 🎤 Just a small town girl. Livin’ in a loonely wooorld~ She took the midnight train going aaany wheeere~
Frost: 🎤 Just a city boy. Born and raised on Sooouth Detroit~ He took the midnight train going anywhere ~
*Botamo joins in leaving Hit sitting down as Magetta turns on a candle and raises it in the air*
Cabba: 🎤 A singer in a smokey room! The smells of wine and cheeeaap perfume! For a smile they can shaare the night! It goes, on and on and on and on~!
Frost/Cabba: 🎤🎤 Strangers!! Waiting! Up and down the boulevard! Their shadows~! Searching, in the niiight ~!
Botamo: 🎤📣 STREETLIGHTS! PEOPLE!
Frost: 🎤🎶 Living just to fiiind emotion! Hidin’! Somewhere, in the niiiiiight ~!
*Frost nudges Hit to continue and refuses*
Cabba: 🎤 Workin’ hard to get my fill! Everyone wants to thrill~! Payin’ anything to roll the dice.. Just ooone mooore tiiime~!
Frost: 🎤🎶 Some will win! Some will lose! Some were born to siiiing the blues! Oh, the movie never ends, it goes on and on and on and on ~! 🎶
Frost/Cabba/Botamo: 🎤🎤🎤 Strangers!! Waiting~!
Cabba: 🎶 Up and down the boulevard~!
Frost/Cabba/Botamo: 🎤🎤🎤 Their shadows! Seearching in the night~!
Botamo: 🎤 Streetlights! People!
Cabba: 🎤🎶 Livin’ just to fiiind emotion!
Frost: 🎶 Hidin’ somewhere in the niiiiiiiight ~!!
*Hit slowly smirks and goes up to them. Cabba hands him a microphone*
Frost/Cabba/Botamo: 🎤🎤🎤 Don’t stop!! Believing!
Hit: 🎤 Hold on to that feeeeling~!
Frost/Cabba/Botamo: :D
Frost/Cabba/Botamo: 🎤🎤🎤 🎶 Streetlights! Peeeooooooooople ~!!
Frost/Cabba/Botamo/Hit: 🎤🎶 Don’t stop!! Believing!!
Cabba: 🎤 Hold ooon ~!
Cabba/Botamo: 🎶 Streetlight!!
Frost/Hit: 🎶 People, Ooooh ~!!
All: 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎶 Don’t stop!! Believing!! (Hold on that feeling ~!) Streetlight!! People, WOOOAH~!
I needed this and I feel there are many I know that do as well 💜🫶🏻
Beat your imposter syndrome and self-doubt on your personal Hero’s Journey
You probably know the Hero’s Journey popularized by Joseph Campbell, the basic structure for many beloved stories. A hero gets called to action, enters an unknown world, faces challenges and temptations, fails, learns what they need to change, applies said new insights, et voilà: success.
I just realized you can apply this to your imposter syndrome and self-doubt. Many of you feel (or fear) you don’t have the skills to bring your big, new project to an end. I’m here to tell you: you don’t need to.
The hero at the beginning of the story doesn’t have what it takes to bring their journey to a successful end. It’s the journey itself that transforms the character into someone who has what it takes to finish it. The character at the end of the journey is not the same as the character at the beginning of the journey.
So start ambitious projects that you feel underqualified for. It’s not imposter syndrome or writer’s block. You're in the challenges and temptations phase of your journey. Don’t let them hold you back. Let them transform you. Identify the skills you need to acquire to make your journey into a success. Learn. Practise. You’re not “not good enough”—you’re on your Hero’s Journey and you’re on the threshold of your transformation phase.
(I told my husband about this idea and he played Don't stop believin' by Journey. Per-fection.)
If this helped you, you might want to take a look at the rest of my writing advice.
Now go tackle your dream!
The Earth is our one and only home, and the creatures in it need help just as much as the planet itself.
Don’t stop fighting for a better future!
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