I just got back from my holidays. 3 weeks in a beautiful spot in our mountains. There's not many common people there - mostly locals (nice good looking girls and mostly simple guys), no big companies, life flows in a totally different way, you feel separated from all the bullshit out there, actually I was disconnected from the world not knowing what is going on, whenever you think or dream it gets pretty epic, you feel so free and you admire everything around you everytime you wake up or go for a walk at night and realise that the brightest objects out there are the stars.
This made me think a lot. The point of this thread though is to tell you that I could see everything from a different direction there and I want to share my thoughts.
You see, for the past few years I spent most of my time achieving goals I thought are really important to me. I was so focused to be a successful person, spent 90% of my time either doing something in a specific direction or thinking about it. I sacrificed a lot of my social life and spare time to perfect my skills and gain knowledge, do courses that would strenghten my position in the labour market and also pick faculties that often stressed me hard.
I was glad that I'm heading in a right direction to a successful life and everytime I did better than fe. friends from my group I felt sort of glad and rewarded.
Soon after I passed all of my exams at uni I decided to go just by myself to those said mountains to rest.
During those 3 weeks there I've met so many great people, spent one of the best times of my life and when I was alone hiking I contemplated my life - for the first time I managed to look at it from a different direction that made me happy - it was like discovering my true way to live.
For a long time I thought that people who said that money don't bring happiness, that the commercial measures of success are bullshit are corny, lame and that it's the same kind of people that say "You can be whatever you want to be" type of things - well, in most cases they were and that's why I didn't believe them.
Suddenly when I realised that most people get stuck working not just to affoard their normal lives but exploat themselves 100% to get more and more are pathetic. It's a total waste of life and I almost got caught in.
It's one of the biggest mistakes to do in life - to dump the chance of doing what makes you really happy and do what you think would give you profits that in reality won't change anything significant for you.
When I came back home I felt like I was sinking in a bowl full of everyday shit. I've felt terrible and lost all the enthusiasm I had before.
Today when I woke up I didn't even want to get up.
I decided to unpack my stuff and I came across a sheet of paper with dedications from 2 really nice girls I've met on my mountain holidays. It was almost illlegible since they wrote it soon before we got hit by an enormous rainstorm while we were about 10km from the closest settlements and returned on foot for about 3 hours in a heavy shower.
I suddenly reminisced the times I spent thinking there and managed to get my mind to the same state it was back then.
Right now I think that it's time to totally change my life and perceive things differently. I see that most of my earlier hopes and dreams were insignificant.
I also see that happiness is impossible to reach for most people who are stuck searching for it where there's no sign of it. I don't want to waste my precious life for stupid things which were my priorities back then. I even got caught into judging other people accoarding to what I thought was a fair measure of success/wealth which was super-stupid BUT I see that a huge majority of people still do so anyway. I also believe that this puts pressure on many people who then make wrong decisions, are forced to live by insignificant priorities and fail to understand what their lives should be really about. As I think about it now I think that most people adapted themselves to head in a wrong way without even realizing what is wrong, even if they know that they are not living their lives like they would like to.
Personally I was stuck thinking about my life a lot of times with no success, then my life had to give me a demo of what really makes me happy - I was lucky enough to find it out.
So don't think about your lives too hard, don't adapt to things you just feel quite comfortable with but go and search for your own joy.
I see that what I just wrote looks sort of corny and so 70s or 80s but hey, it worked for me.
This made me think a lot. The point of this thread though is to tell you that I could see everything from a different direction there and I want to share my thoughts.
You see, for the past few years I spent most of my time achieving goals I thought are really important to me. I was so focused to be a successful person, spent 90% of my time either doing something in a specific direction or thinking about it. I sacrificed a lot of my social life and spare time to perfect my skills and gain knowledge, do courses that would strenghten my position in the labour market and also pick faculties that often stressed me hard.
I was glad that I'm heading in a right direction to a successful life and everytime I did better than fe. friends from my group I felt sort of glad and rewarded.
Soon after I passed all of my exams at uni I decided to go just by myself to those said mountains to rest.
During those 3 weeks there I've met so many great people, spent one of the best times of my life and when I was alone hiking I contemplated my life - for the first time I managed to look at it from a different direction that made me happy - it was like discovering my true way to live.
For a long time I thought that people who said that money don't bring happiness, that the commercial measures of success are bullshit are corny, lame and that it's the same kind of people that say "You can be whatever you want to be" type of things - well, in most cases they were and that's why I didn't believe them.
Suddenly when I realised that most people get stuck working not just to affoard their normal lives but exploat themselves 100% to get more and more are pathetic. It's a total waste of life and I almost got caught in.
It's one of the biggest mistakes to do in life - to dump the chance of doing what makes you really happy and do what you think would give you profits that in reality won't change anything significant for you.
When I came back home I felt like I was sinking in a bowl full of everyday shit. I've felt terrible and lost all the enthusiasm I had before.
Today when I woke up I didn't even want to get up.
I decided to unpack my stuff and I came across a sheet of paper with dedications from 2 really nice girls I've met on my mountain holidays. It was almost illlegible since they wrote it soon before we got hit by an enormous rainstorm while we were about 10km from the closest settlements and returned on foot for about 3 hours in a heavy shower.
I suddenly reminisced the times I spent thinking there and managed to get my mind to the same state it was back then.
Right now I think that it's time to totally change my life and perceive things differently. I see that most of my earlier hopes and dreams were insignificant.
I also see that happiness is impossible to reach for most people who are stuck searching for it where there's no sign of it. I don't want to waste my precious life for stupid things which were my priorities back then. I even got caught into judging other people accoarding to what I thought was a fair measure of success/wealth which was super-stupid BUT I see that a huge majority of people still do so anyway. I also believe that this puts pressure on many people who then make wrong decisions, are forced to live by insignificant priorities and fail to understand what their lives should be really about. As I think about it now I think that most people adapted themselves to head in a wrong way without even realizing what is wrong, even if they know that they are not living their lives like they would like to.
Personally I was stuck thinking about my life a lot of times with no success, then my life had to give me a demo of what really makes me happy - I was lucky enough to find it out.
So don't think about your lives too hard, don't adapt to things you just feel quite comfortable with but go and search for your own joy.
I see that what I just wrote looks sort of corny and so 70s or 80s but hey, it worked for me.
