You are worth it.
How many times did someone say that to you? Great reassuring words; you hear them from a dear friend, your sister perhaps, a colleague at work.
You are worth it.
You hear it, yes, but you can't take it in.
How often you've realized that you should feel worth it, but you don't?
That's the point. It's not about
How many of us fall into the delusion of convincing ourselves that, after the next deadline, when I finish that paper, once I have settled down in my new job (or after quitting my job), once that's over and sorted out, I will finally get myself to do what I came here to do, which is take the necessary steps towards what I believe will lead me to a good and meaningful life?
I see
I wish you bad luck. I seriously do.
And excuse me if I sound rude or arrogant, but after reading Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts commencement speech at his son’s ninth-grade graduation (2017), it's the thing I wish you the most.
Bad
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Career advice - even if it's one of the most required - is one of the hardest, and maybe, the most absurd genres to counsel. We are all so different and diverse, and so are our backgrounds and realities and expectations, that there is not such as a general career advice rule's sheet.
But if, gun to my face, I had to set up a list of the wiser and more valuable factors to take into
You can consider yourself a lucky person, but even if you have avoided (that far) huge hardship in life, at some point my friend you are going to be confronted with the fact that existence is intrinsically painful.
Human suffering has tormented philosophers from western and eastern societies, and has been analyzed by every form of religion on Earth for centuries. But this obsession on
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