A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell
Instant gratification rules our lives more than most of us would be ready to admit.
After all, why wait when you can have it now?
Too much is accessible too easily, but it certainly comes to a high cost.
It's easy to yield to temptation when it's simply everywhere around us, and when it follows you everywhere you go, thank your smartphone for this one.
Why fight to fix something, when you can simply get a new one?
Sign up on a dating app, and you'll see that choice is not something lacking there.
I mean, the grass is always greener on the neighbor's lawn, isn't?
Until you ditch your own turf to see for yourself that it was just another fantasy trap which your mind played on you.
Because hey, there's a limit to how great things could be, even if it's with a new somebody.
Next thing you know, what the person does is way worse than what you flushed down the toilet.
Welcome to this game called life:
it doesn't come with an instruction book, so play at your own risk.
Most people only play for themselves, so best of luck with that.
Oh and, while at it, take as much pleasure as you want.
You know, the type that is ephemeral, short-lived and instant?
Would you really turn down something that could give your boring life the excitement you've been longing for?
You better find what your values are and hold on to them for dear life because otherwise, you'll end up falling for everything and anything along the way.
Maybe if the education system would instill in us from a young age the value of what really matters in life, most humans would not spend their whole lives endlessly chasing the meaningless and superficial.
Because yes: a new car, a new relationship, or a winning lottery ticket will not make you happier in the long haul.
It's all too easy to fall prey to the many bias of our own mind, all the more the minute we enter the vast world of the internet.
As a result, your mind starts to pay attention to the stimuli it wants, while neglecting a lot of important stuff, and it does a pretty good job at convincing you that the limited data it extracted its information from is accurate.
If anything, our minds are not accurate machines.
We're such flawed creatures, yet we think we are failing when we don't live up to the perfection standard the media loves to sell at us.
But hey, that's how they make their money, right?
So might as well keep on scrolling through your insta feed cuz you're only a picture away to feel like your life is shit and that everyone has it together but you.
(please sense my sarcasm over here)
Maybe if we would invest time working on becoming better humans, rather than waste it participating in such nonsense, the modern world of today could improve.
But then again, how can you teach someone to master something that you fail at yourself?
You want your kids to spend as less screentime as possible, but what do you do first thing in the morning?
Routine is unconscious.
Most of our behaviors are unconscious and automatic.
The only '' thing'' which can make us escape from it is called self-awareness.
A crucial life skill that they don't sell in stores.
There's no point in filling your calendar to the max and burning yourself out if it's only to keep on acquiring more of the meaningless.
Time is a precious asset.
Make sure you spend it in a way that aligns with your values.
