The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
Don’t wait until they tell you you are ready. The world might say you are not allowed to yet. I waited a long time in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please, Don’t even bother asking, don't bothering telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.