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How Do You Realize What’s Important In Life?

Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readFeb 4, 2025

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Think about your life. You are only here for a short while and eventually, you will die.

There is nothing that can stop that from happening. You may die tomorrow, next week, or in 80 years from now, but you will die.

No matter what you do, that is inevitable.

Now think about that moment, the moment when your life is coming to an end… What will matter then?

Will the money matter?

Will the success matter?

Will your family matter?

Will your friends matter?

Will your achievements matter?

What will have mattered to you when you die?

Thinking about this question you will notice that there are a lot of things that won’t matter.

Given enough time, all your mistakes, embarrassments, all your failures, bad times and even the sadness you felt will wash away.

Time, in that sense, washes away a lot of the things you find important in the moment, and what remains are the things that matter to you.

Focus on this question and do not let go until you find an answer for yourself.

Think about everything going on in your life right now.

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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