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Things That Do Not Matter In Life
2 min readMar 21, 2023
- Wealth — It’s always just a means to an end.
- Social connections — Friends on Facebook do not matter, only real friends do. All the other people that you try to have close by only divert your attention from yourself and distract you from developing and investing in the ones that do.
- Possessions — When you die you cannot keep anything at all, so why bother collecting?
- Achievements — Who cares what you achieved in life? If you do not live your life, enjoy the process and have fun, are the achievements really that important?
- Knowledge Without Action — The world is full of knowledgeable derelicts that never use what they have learned.
- Not Feeling Like It — What matters is living the life you want, which is not the same as feeling amazing every moment of every day. So what if you do not feel up to it today? Are you going to give up everything you’ve worked so hard for just because you don’t feel like it?
- Grudges — No matter what someone did, they are still a human being that only made their best choice.
- Your Past — It’s over. Get over it. Your life is happening now and not any other time. You’re only wasting the limited time you have by looking at what was.
- Opinions & Expectations — You are you and you are perfect…
