Enjoy life because it is short
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What makes us feel accomplished? What makes us feel that we are worth a damn? Society and the media seem to correlate a person’s value to the quality and quantity of their stuff. From experience I know this is not true. There are many idiots that earn big money and live the high life, and…
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You and everyone you know will die. All the stuff you collect and surround yourself with will belong to someone else in the future or will be considered junk and tossed. This is a fact. We don’t think about this fact daily; sometimes, decades go by without considering this ultimate ending. It makes sense not…
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Depression is insidious. It forms like a fog in your brain, obscuring your life and your feelings so slowly that you don’t even notice. You loose your way, you can’t see where you are and eventually you loose yourself. In the USA 21 million people experience depression at any given moment. That is a number…
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‘Sorry, can you say that again?’, Jim was sure this customer asked to buy every drone he had in his store. ‘I’d like to buy every drone in your store’, the customer repeated with a disarming smile. ‘Jim’s toys and games’ has been in business for 6 months. Hard months filled with stress and ramen.…
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What can I say? Live well on your terms. I felt trapped in endless daysmudanely moving from play to play;eat, sleep, work, repeat;shit, the sameness of my days left me beat.I drowned my sorrow with drugs and boozeusing hopeless futility as an excuse.But this only made me lose;job, family, friends and favor.Then I did a…
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To a large extend we are formed by our experiences. At some point though we have to take charge and set the tone of our existence. A perfect life is impossible. The best we can do is to be present and put ourselves out there. Participate in life. Mingle, love, learn, laugh, screw up or…
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I saw something on YouTube that resonated with me. Nobody likes being wrong. Everyone hates making mistakes. This is often programmed into us by parents, school, friends and peers. Mistakes are highlighted, talked, laughed and cried about. Avoiding mistakes can lead to inaction. When you do nothing you cannot fail right? Wrong! Doing nothing is…
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Life is a puzzle. No, the whole world is a puzzle. When the puzzle pieces are put together correctly a picture emerges, and the puzzle is solved. Puzzle pieces are not unique, making it possible to complete the puzzle, but obscure the picture when pieces are fit in the wrong place. Just because a piece…
Tales from my head 