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A note from Dr. Hendrix
For years I felt like two people — a ready smile on the outside, an endless search for the real me within — until a life-changing decision forced the question. This piece lands on the line I finally chose to live by: better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. I wrote it because becoming who you are is less a discovery than a decision.
— Dr. Roger Hendrix · We share these stories so you can know the family behind GreenTeaHP.
I’ve always wondered if others felt like I did: a bit superficial on the outside with a ready-made smile, and a greeting I had been repeating ad nauseam; PLUS, looking endlessly for the real me on the inside.
Then one day, in the midst of having to make a decision that would change my life and that of my family, I said, “I’d rather wake up at fifty and say I failed but tried, than wake up and say, I’ll never know, because I never tried.”
I was thirty seven when I said that. I’m now past seventy. I made that decision and took the jump. As I look back, it doesn’t seem like that much. It was a transition from my chosen profession as a teacher to becoming a businessman.
I’ve concluded it was the act of taking a risk that was profound. It cleansed me of any doubts about who I was.
What you see is what you get.
I am who I am.