Thread by @warikoo

I turned 39 yesterday.

Here are a few things I have learnt about life, while living life

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Nothing pisses the world off more than you being comfortable with who you are

Watching your kids grow up is heart breaking. Everyday they lose a bit of their innocence and become just as corrupt as we all are. That’s a precious life going away. One day at a time.

Money buys freedom. Freedom is a privilege

Listening to someone without judgement is the most precious gift you can give someone

Risk and failure is a state of mind. There are no measurement scales for them. We create them. So we can destroy them too.We are not naturally trained to love ourselves. Learning how to do so is this journey called life

You can neither chose your parents nor what they end up doing to you psychologically. Be prepared to heal yourself, if you have to

To not have a plan and be ok with it, is the best plan. It will take everything to get to that point

The world is designed to make our lives comfortable. Avoiding the comfort trap is the difference between who you are and who you could have been

No one owes you their time and money. And you don’t owe anyone either

Losing your temper is a sign that you have a long way to go

If you are comfortable dancing in public without alcohol or drugs, you are at peace with who you are

The world will always keep you in the news if you do the unexpected. No one covers the expected. No one cares

The world will only keep you in the news if you do the unexpected. No one covers the expected. No one cares

The easiest way to learn from mistakes is to read books. The next option is to commit them yourselves

Being in control of your time is being in control of your entire life. There is nothing else worth controlling

Do not try and remember anything. Write it down. Keep a calendar. Free your mind from tasks

Resisting the obvious is a great way to change your orbit. If you do what everyone else will do, you will end up as everyone else

The world will constantly be defining success and failure for you. Realizing this is what is called self awareness

The world will constantly be defining success and failure for you. Realizing this is what is called self awareness

The years during which you work the hardest with nothing to show will be the years that will build you. Those will also be the years the world will not acknowledge you

Compounding is the biggest miracle of life. Founder dilution also is, in a bad way

The world fears the person who doesn’t fear anything. But it’s scarier for the world to face someone who embraces fear

Holding a grudge against someone requires a lot of effort. Think of all the wasted time spent being mad at someone

You are not responsible for anyone else’s happiness. Being responsible for yours is as it is tough

Being grateful in life for what you have, is precious

Complaining has never ever got someone to the solution

Working out teaches you discipline and patience like few other things do

You outgrow relationships. And when you do, don’t be ashamed to move on

The most dangerous people are those who run away from change. They are also the most energy sucking

Being good at something and being happy doing it are two very different things

People would much rather work for a competent asshole than an incompetent nice guy

The purpose of school is not to teach you subjects and concepts. It’s to teach you how to drop your ego and learn as a student. That’s why life is also called a school

Don’t ever fool yourself to believe you deserve to be where you are in life. You are just plain lucky. Born into privilege, love, care and shelter. Sitting on opportunities that people smarter and more hard working than you do not get

Spend time with people who are not like you. You don’t want your world to create a bigger version of you. You want it to create a better version of you. That happens when beliefs are challenged and debated

Destiny is what happens to you. Life is how you chose to react to it

Would you be friends with your own self? Would you marry your own self? Would you be your own boss? What version of you would you much rather not be? Why do you still be that version?

True respect is when people know everything about you and still respect you. To get respect from a distance is easy. But that isn’t respect. It’s infatuation

How you treat someone who has nothing to offer, defines your value system. Your values don’t help you grow. But in times of shit, they hold you together

Empathy cannot be taught. Either you have it or you don’t. And if you don’t, compensating it by intelligence doesn’t help. Best is to remain an asshole

The hardest thing in the world is to tell yourself that it’s not hard at all

You will get what you seek. Not what you desire. Not what you dream. What you seek. Fervently

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