Anyone else having a hard time adjusting to Earth? You are not alone...
I occasionally think about my purpose on Earth and what I am to achieve while living here. It’s honestly not a simple concept and I am often lost and unable to understand the meaning of life. It scares me that so many years have passed in my life, yet there are so many more years to come. Being in my mid-20s, I often question if I made the wrong decision in terms of my career as I am often burnt and find myself looking forward to retirement. I enjoy checking my retirement fund wishing for that day to approach sooner rather than later.
At the same time, am I in the right profession if I am burning out a lot? Me being the crazy person I am, I have always loaded myself with stress, which I do enjoy, and I am currently working full time while completing my master’s course. As someone who works better under stress, overworking my timetable has always been considered natural. Because of this, when I do have a spare second, instead of going out with family and friends or breathing in some fresh air, I find myself sitting on my cozy bed scrolling through social media reels or watching YouTube. Although it is very difficult to stop being a bed potato, across the last few months, I have been trying to change this about me and to explore nature more or do more things such as starting this new website …
I think the most important thing in life is having a balance between life, work, and study. It’s important to study as our parents and teachers have told us, and of course we must work hard to ensure efficiency. But at the same time, it is 100% essential that we save some time to do the things that we love whether it be spending time with family and friends or trying something new or reading in a park or trying that hot chocolate from that café everyone is talking about.
Am I happy with where I am today? Unfortunately, as a part of human nature, I am more of a negative person. I have a truckload of regrets from the past such as, “I wish I had studied better during my bachelor’s degree so that I wouldn’t look dumb now”, or “I wish I had hung out with my friends more often back in school in New Zealand”, or “I wish I had travelled more during school and university when I had more time” … But when I sit down and think about it, I can’t change the past. So, either I can continue drowning in my regrets or enhance my life with positivity and learn and grow from my mistakes and regrets.
As do many others, I fear the end and sometimes think about the end of our lives in Earth and what I hope to have achieved by then. But at the end of the day, all we can do is live 1 day at a time and live in positivity and happiness. Pick up all the opportunities that come our way so that we are not living in regret.
Now did I answer any of my questions properly?
Written with sincerity,
Me.
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