There are only two people in the world you need to make proud: not your mother, not your father, not your husband, not your wife, and not even your children. I'm talking about the 8-year-old you and the 80-year-old you. If these two people are happy, then you've done a good job. Because your 8-year-old self didn't care about status, money, likes or professional titles. The most important thing for him was to feel safe, alive and to do things that made his heart beat with joy. And yourself at eighty? You won't be interested in the mistakes you made or the people who doubted you. You'll only be interested in whether you lived courageously, loved freely, seized the opportunities that frightened you, and said the words you always wanted to say. Right now, you are stuck in the middle: trapped under pressure and expectations, you are in survival mode. But once you are freed from these chains, you will see the two versions of yourself waiting for you: the child who dreams and the elder who remembers. Live a life that makes them both proud, because in the end you will realise that they were the only people who really mattered.