My life is great
When I was scrolling through a website the other day, I suddenly felt like I was being sucked into a self-help vortex. Every other article was a list about all the ways my life was wrong and all the things I wasn’t doing right.
Although well-intentioned, these articles weren’t helping me to live my life “the right way” — they were subliminally whispering that my life wasn’t good enough, that I wasn’t living my life the way an Internet writer wanted me to live it.
But I ask, what’s so wrong with my life? Enough people out there are telling us how to see the world, how to live in it and how to get the most from life. So, check out these 15 reasons why your life is already great, no matter what the Internet has to say about it:
- You’re living it. You’re alive. You’re breathing. You’re lucky
- You have enough time to waste some of it on the Internet (and you also have Internet service). There are people who don’t — be grateful.
- You have opportunities. I’m won’t tell you how to chase them. But you have them, whether you recognize it or not.
- You have your fix. We all have one — candy, basketball, Disney sing-a-longs. I won’t tell you if it’s bad to be addicted or not, but this at least means you have some pleasure in your life.
- You live in an age in which you’re allowed to choose what you want to do. Plenty of people have opinions about how to use or abuse your freedom — but at least you have freedom at all.
- You’re allowed to wear (basically) anything you want. Yes, we still have laws that require you to be clothed, but you’re allowed to clothe yourself in whatever fashion you wish. You don’t have to listen to people telling you what to wear.