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Amor Fati: How to fix your shitty life

For the life of me, I couldn’t understand why things take either a long time or no time. Maybe it’s nothing, just some trick played by the brain. But it really feels like life is just flying by, as I move towards living it.

Too many of us justify “not” living.

We’ve got bills to pay, responsibilities to honor, things to do and thingamajigs to work on.

So our solution is to say “tomorrow.”

We try to convince ourselves that we’ll get to living. We’ll eventually have the things we want out of life by somehow finding them tomorrow.

Be Benjamin Button.

During my youth, I was possessed by the spirit of a geezer; I was cranky, cynical, and way too worried about things that didn’t matter at all.

As I got older, I let go.

I let go because I realized I wasn’t living. When you practice living for tomorrow, you become good at avoidance, and then suddenly nothing does anything for you at all. You find yourself numb.

Met with shock from learning I had unresolved issues and apparently I couldn’t force the universe to grant my dreams, I learned the most key to life.

It isn’t what you have, it’s who you become.

You may never get the things you want. You might not ever reach your euphoria or whatever goal it is you fantasize about. But that doesn’t matter.

Those things don’t determine the course of your life.

If you want a good life, you need to start embracing every moment of it, and optimistically. You need to see it all, even the shitty parts, as a part of your fate- something to be faced, confronted, and learned from.

Smile at the world, flirt with existence, play through the pain.

Do this, and suddenly in no time, you’ll find yourself in a better movie.

#StayFoolish

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