When I saw this quote on Pinterest, I started to reach for the re-pin button to add it to Sarah Written All Over It, as I so often do on pretty quotes like this one. But I stopped, mid mouse drag, and stared at it a bit longer. I always pin the get it guuurrrlll type quotes, very much like this one. You know the quotes that go something like, "Dear Self, Be Awesome Today" or the quote that goes, "Remember the Person You Thought You Couldn't Live Without, Well Look at You, Livin and Shit!" or that quote like, "You Musn't Be Afraid to Dream a Little Bigger Darling..."you know, those quotes. So naturally, my first instinct was to eat this pin right up. But I didn't repin because I stopped and realized, no one has ever told me I couldn't do something. Since the day I was born I've been told there is nothing I can't do. In fact, many things weren't even a matter of can or can't in my household. Take college for instance, it wasn't an option, I was going to college. I wanted to start Social&Chic and do freelance work for my old company in Tennessee when I moved to Texas. No one told me I couldn't. No one told me that was impossible. Heck, no one even told me you can't move to Texas! The more common response was, "Whoa that'll be awesome! I'd love to help and send business your way!" I've made many, and I mean many, major changes in my life since college. Probably safe to say I've made more than the vast majority of 27 year olds in this country. At no point, and I mean none, did anyone tell me I'd fail. Or tell me I couldn't do that. Or tell me I was crazy. I've received nothing but love and support with all of my endeavors, no matter how crazy they were! I'd say the only person who ever holds me back, tells me I'm going to fail... is myself! Sure I've been given constructive criticism. And it hurt to hear those things. But guess what was behind that criticism, love and support! Love and support and good intentions, intentions of helping me reach whatever goal it was I had set for myself. Maybe the person who made this quote misunderstood someone's constructive criticism and needs a tougher skin? Or maybe the person who made this quote has toxic people in their life and really needs to re-evaluate the people they are associating with. I sure as heck know that if someone were to ever, and I mean ever, tell me I couldn't do something... well I would laugh so hard and say, "Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!"