10 Ways You’re Making Your Twenties Harder Than They Need To Be
You analyze your life by comparing it to everyone else’s around you, rather than looking at it as its own independent experience.
You analyze your life by comparing it to everyone else’s around you, rather than looking at it as its own independent experience.
It’s about realizing that an entire universe exists outside of your day-to-day schedule, that the petty things that once irritated you become a lot less irritating when you begin to understand how many other things are out there in the world.
Your power comes from acknowledging it, from looking this uncertainty directly in the eye and understanding it for what it is. It is something that makes you uncomfortable, something that makes you panicky and scared, something that gives you anxiety in every situation.
“He gets up, puts on his slippers, and then lays mine by the bed for me to slip on right when I stand up. We’ve never spoken about it but he does it now every single morning, and my heart still melts a little bit every single time. It’s so little but it makes me feel so loved.”
Feel the warmth within you. How, if you concentrate enough and let go of your skeptical thinking for just a moment or two, how you can feel the warmth move up and down, from your feet to your face. How you can almost control it. How aware and alive it feels. How it might be your soul.
No wonder a phone call is so dazzling and incredible these days. It’s a rare peek into the vulnerability that lies within every human – a trait we seem to have very much forgotten. And one that I’m not sure how we’re going to get back.
Maybe keeping our hearts to ourselves will protect us from becoming like the millions of broken hearts that have come before us. But we’ll also never feel the incredible, overwhelming force of joy that comes from such minuscule, everyday moments.
Accept a life of mediocrity and don’t try to change it. Dream careers and exciting travel and supportive partners and loyal friends were made for other people, not you. Just sit there, and feel nothing. Not triumph nor failure. Just be neutral, just take this as your fate.
“Guns kill people. People kill people. Assault weapons kill catastrophic amounts of people.”
“Not caring what others think” is an admirable quality to have, but it’s pretty damn difficult to maintain in my opinion. Sometimes your energy is better spent accepting that judgment hurts, allowing yourself to feel the sting, and then using that spark to move on and go after what you want with an even stronger force than before.