Steal These Thoughts!
Let me tell you something, a year ago today I had a vision. Not a dream, but a vision of building a passion project to satisfy my creative needs.
I created a platform to satisfy my own creative love of writing. It was meant to be something just for me, and maybe that one other random person who might land on it by mistake through a random Google search.
Before we begin:
If you’ve read any of my stuff before, then you’ll know I have a somewhat obsession with human development and the exploration of meaning.
I’m of the opinion that having meaning in life is more important than happiness. Mainly because happiness is an emotional state, one that is fleeting and cannot be sustained. Whereas meaning is something that drives us, gives us a sense of being and will more likely provide the moments of happiness we seek.
Everyone seems to be on a mission to be happier, which of course is admirable but happiness is not a destination.
Despite what the click bait articles and the social media charlatans will have you believe, happiness is not a destination you arrive at and then experience eternally at all times.
No one likes feeling alone, right? It sucks!
So why is it in a time when we have so many ways to connect with each other, no matter where we are in the world, that more of us feel lonelier than ever?
Access to connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime through technology is amazing, yet if we step back and examine this in more detail, how has it affected the quality of our connections?
Everything seems easy when you look back.
I could have done this or I should have done that, you might say to yourself over and over. Yet, you forget that you did whatever you did based on what you knew at the time and this is all any of us ever have – this moment.
That’s the ultimate problem with hindsight, it’s an alluring false reality of what could have been, because it would have never been.
We can all only do what we know to be the best in this moment right now, we can only make decisions or take actions on what we know to be right or true in this moment, not 3 weeks from now.
So don’t be so hard on yourself, realise that you did the best you could in what you knew at that time and no deep dive hindsight party in your head will ever change that.
It’s like Theodore Roosevelt perfectly summed up – “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”
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