Category: Shane Lynch
Shane Lynch - Life is what you make it
Tags: Boyzone, self-esteem, feeling good, self-image, financial health, self-worth, achievement, Shane Lynch, Sort Your Life Out
I recently was a TV a programme on BBC1 that Shane Lynch was on. Who is Shane Lynch? Well seven years ago he was one fifth of chart topping Irish boyband Boyzone.
Shane has been on a bit of a journey of self discovery. He was kicked out of school at 14, Shane was a real problem child. But he proved his critics wrong by rising to fame with Boyzone.
To the outside world Shane had it all — everything and anything money could buy. At the height of his success with Boyzone, he should've been the happiest man alive with a string of No 1 singles, albums and sell-out tours. But, he wasn't. On the inside, his life was a daily battle of self-destructive behaviour.
He told me he had everything in terms of materialistic things — £1m house, a Mercedes, a Porsche. Everything money could buy, but he wasn't happy. He was quite lonely and was searching for something else. He told me that it's true what they say, money can't buy you happiness.
Shane was very much like me in being written off as a child, not for just being dyslexic, but also as a problem child not getting on in life or with the school system. However, just like me he not let this stop him from being successful and making the most of his life.
Shane told me that, "When you die, all that is written on your gravestone is the day you were born and the day you die. There's nothing about the stuff in the middle — the decisions you make and the consequences you have to deal with." He, like me, believes that life is what you make it. What do you reckon?
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Yes agree, but often you don't know which way to go or what decisions to make. The not knowing what to do is the bad bit.
Yes I do agree, life is what you make. I've always gone my own way in life, nothing conventional about my life, but that in itself is scary. When most around you are shaking their heads in amazement at your latest announcement, it can be hard to hold onto your integrity in the face of a gale. I know I have to continue on my own path though, no matter who disapproves and thinks I'm bonkers!
Sure, life is what you make it - you have to take responsibility for how you use the time you have here - you can't blame anyone else if at the end of your days you realise it's all been a useless waste of time. What is 'a useless waste of time'? Not getting anywhere close to reaching your potential, not recognising something that could make you happy when it slaps you in the face, not having the guts to change things, radically, when you know you are unhappy.
