A man looks back on what he has gotten out of taking the Landmark Forum:

About 11 years ago, I did the Landmark Forum. It was there that I realized how full I am with love and gratitude and encouragement. It was there that I learned I already was the things I wished to be — independent, spontaneous, fun, funny, courageous.

My life, for all that I’ve complained about it, was forever improved for having taken the forum. Even on my worst day, lonely and selfish and bitter, I’m still a much better person than I would be without the forum. And I don’t mean better like better than anyone else. I mean a better version of myself. More stable. More relaxed. More kind.

All that moving forward stuff and getting unstuck I’m always going on about, and everything I say I’m trying to reclaim — this is it. I have experienced myself, a few separate times, as purely me. Me without debilitating obstacles like fear and rage and hopelessness.

That’s all I want. I want to be me at my best. All the potential I grew up hearing about? I just want to realize it. That’s it, the rest is tangential. If I truly do have potential, then it’s already in me. All I need to do is translate it from within. Putting it another way, and quoting PJ while I’m at it, “Live, rather than thinking about living.”

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