I wanted some amount of notoriety when I was younger. I wanted to do something important. Accomplish something that helped people. It was mostly notions of havi

I wanted some amount of notoriety when I was younger. I wanted to do something important. Accomplish something that helped people. It was mostly notions of having done some really cool project that people would talk about. I'm in my mid-40s and I appreciate now what I couldn't then: Any kind of attention, greatness, notoriety, etc is entirely fleeting. You will have 15 minutes of attention and unless you do another great thing the best you'll get is "what have you done lately?" It sounds glib, but really you do need to become comfortable with yourself where you are. I don't even know if that's possible in youth, and I don't want to discourage people from chasing their dreams, but you set yourself up for a lot of self-inflicted misery otherwise.