If you had the chance to send a message to the small boy with a dream to go to space, what would you say to him? And if your future self writes a message to you, what do you think he would tell you now?
I think the advice would be exactly the same: that you are the result of your own decisions. You turn yourself into who you're going to be whether you mean to or not. By the decisions that you take every day, you turn yourself into who you're going to be tomorrow, the week after that and the year after that. So think about where you're going in life, choose roughly where you want head and then try and make all the little decisions that push your life in that direction. And be confident in it, recognize that all of those little decisions can collect together into some amazing life experiences and some amazing discoveries. So be confident in your decision making. It's amazing where life can lead you.
*Excerpt from my interview with Chris Hadfield – First Canadian Astronaut to walk in space. Read more how the life on Earth looks like from the space here, on the beauty of a spacewalk here on the on the difference between fear and danger here, on how fear of failure affects our life here and what does it mean for us like human race to be able to go to space here