Live Your Best Life

I'm not sure where I seen the below passage, but it is extremely grounding.

Are we meant to mourn forever?
There is something sobering about how quickly the world moves on when a person dies. 

It reminds you that applause is brief attention is fleeting, and the crowd does not stay long.
So laugh while your lungs are strong enough to carry it.
Cry when you must.
Love deeply and allow yourself to be loved in return.
Travel if you can.
Eat good food.
Sit with friends and be merry.
Forgive quickly.
Carry no hatred in your chest; it is too heavy for such a short journey.
Do that thing you have been postponing. Stop telling yourself “One day".
Help someone.
Share what you have.
Give, even if it is small.
All we truly have is now. The present hour.
Make every second, minute, and hour count.
Live your best life.

Eternal Return: The Ultimate New Year Resolution

Nietzsche’s Eternal Return

Imagine that, when you died, you were born into this life you’re living now, and that you would repeat that forever. This moment and every other would happen again just as they have and will — and you’ll respond to them just as you have and will. 

How does that feel? 

What would you do differently?

How would you live if you were to repeat this life, as it is lived this time, over and over again for eternity? Nothing changes. You couldn’t make different decisions or take on different attitudes. You wouldn’t be conscious that you’re reliving your life. This life. As it is. Again and again. This is the idea of eternal return or recurrence. 

When life is looked at through the prism of eternal return, rather than being ephemeral, fleeting nothings, each moment becomes an immortal brick in the groundwork of your existence. Each moment not only shapes the future, but the present moment for infinite future selves. Eternal recurrence challenges us to inch closer to amor fati — to truly loving our fate. 

If you had to do this again and again, wouldn’t you look harder for a way to love it? 

Nietzsche resolved to amor fati — to love his fate. He wanted to say yes to life.

Choose to be Focused

If you want to make great strides and achieve a truly extraordinary life, you need to reinvest your free time into learning new skills, putting in the work, and being productive.

Hyper-focused mental efforts help to make fast progress. 

It won’t last forever, but you need to put in the time now, so later you can have the life you want.

Ennui

Many fear boredom – even the faintest whiff of boredom sends them scurrying right back to the game.

Schopenhauer said that willing itself is never fulfilled - as soon as one wish is satisfied, another appears. Though there may be some very brief respite, some fleeting period of satiation, it is immediately transformed into boredom.

Every human life, he said, is tossed backward and forward between pain and boredom.

~ Yalom

Talk to your friends, Talk to wrong numbers, everyone!

The secret to small talk is putting yourself out there, being open, genuine, and vulnerable in your desire to connect with others. This is more important than managing every interaction perfectly.               

                "Well, if this means opening your door to those in need,

                those in pain,

                caring for them, listening to them,

                if this is practicing medicine, if this is treating a patient...

                then I am guilty as charged.

                Transference is inevitable...

                Every human being has an impact on another.

                Why don't we want that in a patient/doctor relationship?

                A doctor's mission should be not just to prevent death...

                but also to improve the quality of life.

                That's why you treat a disease, you win, you lose.

                You treat a person, I guarantee you, you win, no matter what the outcome.

                Don't let them anesthetize you. Don't let them numb you out to the miracle of life.

                Always live in awe of the glorious mechanism of the human body.

                Let that be the focus of your studies and not a quest for grades...

                which'll give you no idea what kind of doctor you will become.

                Don't wait till you're on the ward to get your humanity back.

                Start your interviewing skills. Start talking to strangers.

                Talk to your friends, Talk to wrong numbers, everyone."

~ Robin Williams, Patch Adams (1998)