by your mid 20s, you’re mostly dragging around a collection of old habits that no longer serve you

most stuff that helped you get through school and uni is no longer applicable in adult life
and we are too busy “fighting life” to notice that
but once you stop and realize that you might be doing it the wrong way...
that’s when life starts going up without making it an uphill battle
look at your patterns and ask yourself:
“is this actually helping me, or do I just keep telling myself that this is the way I am?”
I used to think that Im a night owl
sitting at my desk until 3am “cooking”
a bad habit you pick up if you try trading the US market from Aus
but I no longer trade that actively
so why do I keep ruining my sleep and putting immense strain on my body?
the worst part about it is that no one made me do it
I chose it myself
a special form of masochism
choose something that ultimately destroys you and call it “my path”
this is just one example
- smoking to socialize
- isolating to waste your time without judgment
- chasing attention because you’re empty inside
I was guilty of it all
until I decided to finally stop and remake myself from scratch
it wasn’t even hard
matter of fact, it was so easy I still don’t believe I chose to betray myself for so long... believing that I can’t
now listen to me...
yes you can
stop telling yourself otherwise just because you’re too comfortable spiralling into the void.