Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren’t ignoring it. You’re healing; the fresh air can get to it. It’s honest. You aren’t hiding who you are. You aren’t rotting. People can give you advice on how to heal without scarring badly. But on the other hand there are some people who’ll feel uncomfortable around you. Some will even point and laugh. But we all have wounds.
— Warsan Shire
This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to
divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one
side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find
themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and
what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live
adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto
college, or high school even, with all their might.
They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re
too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or
women who are good but not great, because they don’t want
to be lonely. They mean to develop intimate friendships, they
mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they
don’t do those things, so they live in an extended
adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they
graduated.
Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal.
Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?”
Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe. Life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.
Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal.
Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?”
Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe. Life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure.
To avoid death, they avoid life.
I
THINK THE ONLY WAY
we can grow and
get on in this world is to accept
THe FacT we'Re noT
PERFECT & LIVE ACCORDINGLY.
we can grow and
get on in this world is to accept
THe FacT we'Re noT
PERFECT & LIVE ACCORDINGLY.
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Dying is
easy. It's living that's hard
"Wondering why a person who has
made the most of the wealth in own life
through
LUCKonly;
says, most often, to the people the most about the importance
of HARD
WORK in their
lives."
~Anuj Somany
~Anuj Somany
"A gentleman has
certainly a class,but he is most probably not one who is posting
own picture online relentlessly for likes votes and praising
oneself only by standing in front of mirror or glass."
~Anuj Somany
~Anuj Somany
“
I
have always lived violently…eaten too much or not at all,
slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked
too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter
laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love
with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a
punishment.—John Steinbeck
”
"Promoting own good thought is entirely
different from
praising oneself only a lot,
and a sensible netizen can easily make out the difference between the two from the big photo that the quote poster has got"
~Anuj Somany
praising oneself only a lot,
and a sensible netizen can easily make out the difference between the two from the big photo that the quote poster has got"
~Anuj Somany
The minute I stopped pretending to know how to live was the
minute my life began to make
MoRe
seNse.
