Why It’s Okay to Change (I Did After Doing Psychedelics)

All my life I’ve been so sure about who I wanted to be. ‘I want to be known for something’, I’d say. I wasn’t quite sure what it was, but I knew it from a young age. At one point I wanted to be a singer. It’s a talent I’ve always had and seldom used, due to my lack of self-confidence. There were times I’d used it, like that one time I sang ‘Bleeding Love’ by Leona Lewis for my school talent contest, and I won the bloody thing. Another time I auditioned for the X-Factor in high school. I passed the first round but didn’t pass the second one because my singing voice was too quiet. That again was because I was terrified and didn’t fully believe I could do it. <a href="https://medium.com/@dominiquetsamuels/how-psychedelics-changed-and-destroyed-my-life-768f10b7640d">Read More</a>