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If you feel stuck somewhere, if you’re too young or too old or too broke, or if you’re somehow tired down to a place , take heart. There’s a community of people out there you can connect with. So if you’re not into the world you’re in, you can build your own world around you.

Those who don’t want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador dali

You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences.