You’re Going to Die Someday. Did You Really Want to Fill Your Days Like This?

Life is precious. Why are you taking on stress like an idiot?

Emily Jennings

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I just looked around the coffee shop I’m sitting in and saw all the people around me, complaining about other people or their jobs, and I just saw people who aren’t awake to the concept that life is important. It’s precious. It’s fleeting. And I just can’t imagine that anyone would want to spend their short time here working on their masters degree in international trade or spending hours a day replacing crowns on peoples’ teeth. How horribly depressing this life is.

People intentionally stress themselves out and we’ve normalized stress, then complaining about it.

We’ve normalized the act of getting excited about a career that is soul-sucking just because it will put a lot of money in the bank that we intend to just sit on. We’ve normalized the lack of vacations and people feeling proud about working so hard that their health and relationships fail.

We’ve normalized being lost.

I’m not rich. I am not rolling in dough. I may not be “successful” according to a lot of peoples’ standards (especially around here where I live within the confines of the greater Washington, DC area). But instead of…

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Emily Jennings
Emily Jennings

Written by Emily Jennings

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