One Life Is Not Enough

You cannot be happy if you have only one dimension to your life, one personality and one source of validation. People who dedicate their entire existence to their business or job are worse off than people who have stumbled upon many things in life. The definition of success then becomes subjective. When you are young and full of energy you want to make a lot of money. Nothing wrong with that. But as you grow older you start to realise that money is important, and so are other things. We fall into the wrong mental framework that we must chase only one thing in life, everything else can wait. And by default we pick money, because it affects so many areas of our lives. We believe money affects most areas of our lives until we realise that love, or the absence of it, creates even bigger problems. Talk to a lonely person and you will notice that their entire worldview is so warped that you cannot even dare ask them to be optimistic. They suffer from anxiety, chronic melancholy and deep…