So feeling lost is normal and no matter how “put together” everyone around you seems, when you dig deeper, you’ll realize that they’re all just “figuring it out” as they go. We paint it with a set of colors and then re-stroke it with another. It’s a journey of self-discovery and creation. Now I realize it’s the normal course of life because life is not a straight line that goes from A to B, it’s a canvas of circles and waves, ups and downs, highs and lows. When I was younger, I used to think that feeling lost was something to be ashamed of. It’s okay to feel lost sometimes the truth is that you owe nothing to your younger self, but you owe everything to your present self. Instead, be grateful for it, and do whatever good you can with it. So stop taking what you have for granted. We often forget that death hangs over us it lingers in the space we cannot touch, and in the blink of an eye, in the flash of a second, it can capture us and strip us bare of the most precious blessing of all: The gift of being alive. In an instant, 200 people lost their lives and 300,000 thousand people became homeless. In an instant, the entire trajectory of the next year of my life changed.Įarlier this year, the third-largest explosion in human history rocked my home city of Beirut. In an instant, I fractured my spine and tore the main ligament in my knee. When I was 27, I flew off a bike and blacked out on the street. So instead of passively taking what you have for granted, be grateful for it and do whatever good you can with it. Your entire life can change in an instant. And as you do, be mindful of the fact that change takes time, so allow yourself all the time you need to grow. Read them, contemplate them, and apply them. Here are 35 life lessons that you should learn early on in life. Today you are wise so you’re changing yourself. And once again, Rumi’s eloquent words chime in and ring ever so true: Yesterday you were clever so you wanted to change the world. The sooner you learn this, the better, and the sooner you accept, the sooner you will want to learn how you can change. And do you know why? It’s because you are your greatest obstacle. Not time, not money, not circumstances-you. The truth is, you are capable of creating whatever you please, but what’s standing in the way between where you are and where you want to be is you. Change the inside, and the outside falls into place. And all the change that you’re seeking in your life first begins with you. That’s precisely when I began to understand that all the change I’m seeking in my life first begins with me. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.” “Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world.
I kept on looking outward, never truly feeling any sense of contentment or peace, until I arrived at these words by the 13th-century poet, Rumi: So I tried different things: I studied abroad, I worked at Google, I backpacked for lengths at a time, I launched my own online business.
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Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had this dream of changing the world, but growing up, I had no idea how-let alone what I wanted to do with my life.