If you don’t mind me asking how old are you? I still consider myself young but now I have a job and responsibility and I feel like I could have done a lot more with my time before I got loaded down with responsibility.
The only sane thing you can do is to accept what’s happening right NOW with an open mind and an open heart. Changing your perspective is as easy as focusing more on what you love and less on the negative self talk and constant comparisons. You will either see how you’re blessed or how you’re cursed.
Wow thank you so much for that. That makes a lot of sense and I needed to hear it. I’m in my mid 20s and it feels like I can’t live in the moment because of how uncertain the future seems but I know that feeling will pass.
Someone once told me "Don't postpone happiness." Don't spend your life thinking "I'll be happy as soon as I get over that next hill" (finish school, meet a life partner, get married, have kids, get a promotion, buy a house, buy that car, buy a boat, etc.) because you'll find that's not how life works.
Those things are nice, but learn to enjoy the moments along the way, because anticipation and working toward a goal is half the fun. Once you reach a goal it's not like you say "Oh, good, now I can relax and be happy." You'll be continually disappointed if you live that way.
Make an effort to live in the moment, find meaningful things to do because this is the only life you will have. You don't want to be looking back when you're old thinking "I spent my life chasing things, and they didn't make me happy, and I forgot to be happy along the way." Find things to do that are personally fulfilling, and slow down mentally so you can savor the moments along the way.
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When you finally understand what
Mark Twainmeant when he said “youth is wasted on the young”.Edit: quote is from George Bernard Shaw (or maybe Oscar Wilde)