Yeah yeah, life is great
What is life? What is my life? This may sound like the questions insecure people might ask themselves, but there are people who are very firm on their beliefs going on adventures trying to find the true meaning of life. Is having a good life all about enjoying?
Life has numerous ways of being defined, but there's only one true answer. What you truly want in your life is your definition of life.
If you want fast cars, that's your life goal, a subset of your life. If you want to be famous, that is what you like your life to revolve around.
But again, is attaining materialistic satisfaction the basis of life?
I don't think so, especially after chancing upon the world's happiness rating index. Surprisingly, the people in the Philippines have one of the highest ratings despite living in conditions that are almost third world-like. On the other hand, Singaporeans who are among the richest of people in the world are not very happy according to the index.
This clearly tells us that the satisfaction of material needs would bring about consequences that sometime come in a form of depriving yourself of non material needs.
Let's say, one is forced to work for 18 hours per day for lots of money. Would one be really really happy when one has no private time and no social life? This kind of happiness would only be short term. Once he hits the age of 60, regrets would start to crush his world in waves.
Life, in my opinio, is not about attaining non material satisfaction and forsaking monetary gains. It is about striking the perfect balance, seizing every opportunity and being proactive. Like I said earlier, life is getting what you truly want.
It is vague but true, sounds easy but difficult to accomplish.
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