Dear Ayrton:

Yes, I can relate and will share more with you if you reply to my post. At this point, this is my input:

It is needed, for your mental health, that you abandon your goal, dream, expectation “to change the world and be remembered for years to come”-

the chances of this happening is extremely small, statistically speaking.

It is possible that a name will get a person to “be remembered for years to come”. An example when that happened: George H. Bush was president of the U.S.  His son, George W. Bush was also president of the U.S. His brother, Jeb Bush was governor of Florida and a candidate for the presidency of the U.S. It was possible for the second and third Bushes to gain political power because of their name and connections: they had accessibility to positons of political power.

But in your case, you only have a name. A name is not enough. It is only… a name.

This name you have is keeping you a prisoner in unrealistic expectations. Maybe you were happy before when in school because it was not time yet to … live up to your name. But when it was time to go to college, it was time to live up to the name, to justify it.

Problem is, any small achievement pales in comparison to the very high, unrealistic expectation, so why bother. When your aim is to become famous enough to be remembered for years to come, nothing short of an earth breaking achievement counts. And so, you give up on achieving those and end up doing nothing.

In reality, your name is only that… a name, not a destiny.

anita