Would you rather go to sleep feeling a sense of relief at the end of a long, arduous day in which you were extremely irritable and frustrated because everything seemed to be working against you ? Or would you rather go to sleep feeling a sense of relief at the end of a long, arduous day in which you did not let external events and people rule your day, in which you didn’t react to anything with hostility but instead embraced everything as it arrived, thanking your lucky stars for your good health and good life?

Take some fucking responsibility for your own life

If you’re anything like me, you’d choose the latter. Now let’s scale this up and apply the above choice to life. It’s fair to say that death can be perceived as a relief. After all, life’s no picnic. In fact what happens to the average middle-class person in a Western, first-world country in a lifetime is similar to a picnic, if that picnic was a mix of pleasant French fancies and dog shit. Life is of course difficult. We encounter the pleasant and the unpleasant, vitality and death, friendliness and rudeness, good health and disease, motivation and depression and that’s just those of us who are lucky enough to have been born in a rich country to a resourceful family. Therefore, although we will hopefully experience many pleasant times, we will also experience heartache and pain and so death may just feel like the relief of your head hitting the pillow after a long and arduous day. This may sound depressing but it beats fearing death. It also beats resentment which grows out of bitterness for being itself. So although many encounter serious issues both mental and physical, resentment never heals.

Therefore, instead of allowing yourself to be frustrated at other people’s actions and behaviour, the likes of which you can’t control, instead of being so arrogant that you believe the world is conspiring against you, instead of complaining about all the resources, money and opportunities other people have and using that as an excuse for your own inaction, take some fucking responsibility for your own life, be fucking grateful for what you have, accept and embrace other people’s insecurities, failures and misgivings and fight your way through hard times so that when the day comes when your head hits the pillow for the final time, you feel a sense of relief, not because of the frustrating life you just had but because you controlled what you could and embraced what you couldn’t.

Keep On Struggling,

Gregor

Finance App I’m Using - eToro

eToro is a multi-asset investment platform I’m using to investment in stocks, commodities and indices. As much the world of investing seems like a complex place, you’ll never succeed if you don’t start which is exactly what I have done. EToro makes it easy and straightforward to examine and invest in the world’s biggest companies and smaller, growing companies. Your capital is at risk, so ensure you’re in a financial situation to lose money.

Investment Website I Use - Crowdcube

Crowdcube is an investment website for smaller start-ups and businesses to pitch for investments in their ideas and products. Companies such as Monzo Banks pitched on Crowdcube and its valuation went from £0 in 2015 to £2 billion just a few years later.

Ensure that you are willing to lose all of your investments here however as many investments do not return anything.

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Quote to Ponder

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children ... to leave the world a bit better .. to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded - Ralph Waldo Emerson

References

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2) eToro Image - EToro

3) Crowdcube Image - Crowdcube