This is a great time for us to learn something about life:
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ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD.
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In the pursuit of values like advancement, wealth and social status, we’ve forgotten what the real values of life are.
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And that they’re NOT “free” and “given”.
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We’ve been raised thinking that only if we go to great schools and make lots of money, only then we’ll be happy, socially respected and successful.
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(Almost) nobody teached us that being grateful for what we already have and pursuing what is important to us, not the society, is what will REALLY make us happy and successful.
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And this is the time we can REALIZE all that. We’ve been forced to stop, thanks to which we have time to think and reflect.
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I’m speaking to you, 14 years old girl wishing to be a supermodel, as well as you, 73 years old millionaire man (Trumps age, what a coincidence…). And all of you in between.
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It’s your time to think back on your life and recognize which major events of it have happened because YOU wanted it or SOMEONE ELSE made you want it.
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I once valued the things on the left of the photo too. But only THANKS TO BAD/PAINFUL EVENTS HAPPENING in my life, it made me realize what is really important. What I NEED rather than what (I think) I want.
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This is one of the “bad/painful events” in your life. And YOU’RE ONLY A DECISION AWAY FROM CHANGING YOUR LIFE.
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I did it, you can do it. From a superficial business school student know-it-all to guy who’s sincerely trying to figure life out on the way.
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So sit the f back now, grab a pen if that’s your thing, and write down what you NEED from life.
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