Turning 22

Wrote this the day after my turning of age. Twenty two things I know thus far in me life:

1. The only person who can become your biggest enemy and your best friend, is yourself. No one else can love yourself more exponentially than you can. So often we expect things from others, objects of desire, human affection, but we seldom remember that it starts within ourselves to provide that nurture and self love.

2. Time is irreversible, I cannot live with regrets. Each and everything that’s happen for better or for worst has its essential value. Everything is a learning lesson, everything happens for a reason. Each minute, hr, day has meaning. Each day is a new one, with a new opportunity to do things differently from the last.

3. According to my strict rational thought pattern and my cost benefit analysis, being sad yields no utility. Each moment wasted on being sad is a moment that could have been potentially utilized for maximizing pleasure.

4. Theres a tendency within many people, including myself to take for granted the people that should be most dear to our hearts. Its easy to scrutinize the people around you for their every action and we seldom step back to give them the benefit of the doubt, and to give them credit for their greater purposes and intent.

5. There are some people who we just cannot compromise with, but the least we could do I respect them. If I gave into hatred every time I met someone who didn’t share my values, I would be defeating myself over and over again.

6. There is no such thing as not being able to live life without someone. Independence is a beauty in itself because self sustaining security is incomparable to any other security given by someone else. Knowing that you don’t NEED someone for survival, but you sure as hell wouldn’t mind sharing your life with someone is a beautiful thing.

7. Meekness is not a quality, being humble is. Why do we shy away from what we rightfully deserve while failing to recognize the qualities that we have?

8. There is no shame in admitting that I need help, we all need help. I used to sit idly and hope for help to come to me. I’ve learned the hard way that proactivity is a tactful quality necessary for success. Seek and you shall find.

9. There is nothing wrong with breaking some rules in life. Mistakes will be made, but we all can heal and maybe the outcome of our lessons can become greater than had we not made the mistakes.

10. I realized that asking for advice is a way of asking for confirmation of what I already know. I think most people take their own instincts for granted, but when in doubt, that’s the best thing to run with.

11. Ask questions, Ponder thoughts, express them.

12. The power to create is a gift. whether it be music, art, or a piece of letter to myself, there is no greater joy in knowing that I’ve extended a part of myself through another medium.

13. There will be hard times in life, but as long as we practice the law of attraction in motion with tangible goals and actions, things will be okay.

14. Fear is falsely self constructed most of the time.

15. Persistence and determination seldom fails.

16. I refuse to be typified..

17. Realism - we do exist and all exist for a reason.

18. Sometimes, integrity has to be compromised in the fluidity of our realizations.

19. “Not everything that shimmers, is gold” or some shit like that.

20. I apologize too much. I don’t take up enough space in the elevator. I am too soft spoken.

21. I reject any formula to life, to relationships, to success, but I know the process is one beautiful one.

22. If I were to leave the face of earth tomorrow, I hope that I could have contributed as much as I could of.

And yes, if you've read all of it, you probably notice I got lazier and lazier as the list went down. ekk 22 is a lot ...time to buy wrinkle cream.