Living well

Your main and really only responsibility in life is to live it well. That’s it.

You define what living it well means- for me, its being close to my family, meaningful conversations with the people I love, chatting with my sister, drinking wine on a weekend over a long lunch with my partner, a weekend of gin-fueled shenanigans with friends, seeing an awe inspiring view that truly takes my breath away, a quiet morning on my balcony with my dog and a book, my dog running over to me with a ball to play as soon as I open the front door, cooking alone, cooking with my sister, trading insults and gossip with my mother while I make coffee in the morning before work and she cooks, listening to a podcast as I travel to work, watching a video on YouTube that expands my mind, watching someone go about their daily routine or crack jokes on YT, eating a really delicious meal in a restaurant that someone put thought and care into, browsing the aisles of a specialty supermarket that stocks condiments and ingredients I haven’t seen before, the promise of a relaxing trip with close friends, the adult chill of spending time alone outside surrounded in people but by myself, reading a really good book or news article, watching a good show, being able to pay bills at home and buy nice things for my parents, help someone that needs a little extra, drinking some nice coffee with a not so sweet dessert-y thing. This is what I love.

A career- needed not only to give me the resources I need to do all this, but also to structure my days and take part in something that’s bigger than me. To be challenged by other people and learn how to work together to do something. To keep learning. To be frustrated by people and procedures but resolve them with time and care. To hopefully help someone else live their life well. But the life well lived- that’s in the comma list up top.

So live that life, the life that is a life well lived for you. Because in the end, that’s all that matters when your life is a meaningless little speck of dust in the grand vast scheme of the universe. Live the life you want- it doesn’t mean you have to do a <passion/love it 24/7> job or anything, but remember the life well lived when you feel compelled to do the hashtag grind/hustle/neverswitchedoff stuff that slowly eats away at your soul, your relationships and who you are.

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