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What to do When you Feel like You’re Wasting Your Life
I see it every day
People hurtling through life perfectly miserable due to the choices they have accepted but not made.
They remain in that dead end job, they accept that bad relationship or they continue to do something which wastes the precious time they have been afforded.
And we make excuses
I need that job for the money to fund my lifestyle.
I need that relationship because everyone else is in one and I can’t be alone.
But the actuality of that is juxtaposed to the truth. We could accept a less extravagant lifestyle or move somewhere less expensive. It is us that chooses the status quo and decides not to because we think we can make it.
Belief is one thing we as humans don’t lack
We think things, people and situations will change and improve but they rarely do. Hope steals years of your life while altering your expectations for the future.
Once something has been set in motion it will remain so until another force is enacted upon it. Seldom are we the person that imparts that force, we overestimate our own…