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Start Where You Are: Lessons for a Meaningful Life

By May 31st, 2025No Comments7 min read

If you really want something, you will find a way and time for it — because a life well lived begins with the choices we make today.

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Life is a journey of choices, moments, and mindset. Every morning, we are given 24 hours—just like everyone else. We all have 24 hours in a day. If you really want something, you will find a way and time for it. Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow. That one simple question can realign your priorities.

It’s often not what we do, but what we don’t do that causes us to feel regret. So take a risk, stop making excuses and start living a life free of regret. The biggest risk is not taking any risk. You must take a chance, make a choice and change your life.

Even if you’re on the right road, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Success is not about waiting—it’s about acting. If you want to be successful, it’s very simple: stop waiting and start doing! Take action, you’ll see the result soon.

Sometimes you have to forget what you feel and remember what you deserve. Love didn’t hurt you. Someone that didn’t know how to love hurts you. Don’t confuse the two. Don’t fall in love with someone who says the right things. Fall in love with someone who does the right things.

Forget about what everyone else thinks and says. If it makes you happy, go for it. Life is too short. Do what makes you happy and be with people who make you smile.

Relationships, Connection, and Emotional Wisdom

As we grow, our relationships change. Some people talk to you in their free time, others free their time to talk to you. Learn the difference. Never plan a future with people who have no future plans. The right relationships inspire growth, while the wrong ones deplete us.

People leave you out in the cold and get mad when you learn how to get warm by yourself. Yet, there’s great strength in learning to stand on your own. How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you. Kindness costs nothing. Kind words cost nothing.

Who needs guns to kill, when you have words? 10% of conflicts are due to difference in opinion, 90% are due to the wrong tone of voice. Our ability to communicate with empathy is one of our greatest assets.

Some encounters will shake you. The biggest joke life will play on you is letting you meet the right person at the wrong time. But someday someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else. It’s all about the person you miss at 2 pm when you are busy, not 2 am when you are lonely.

Don’t ever play with someone’s feelings. You may win the game, but you could lose that person forever. And don’t be so quick to judge me. After all, you only see what I choose to show you. Emotional maturity means knowing that people were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is that things are being loved and people are being used.

Sometimes, all it takes to shift your mindset is a little honesty. Why complicate life? Missing somebody? Call. Wanna meet up? Invite. Wanna be understood? Explain. Have a question? Ask. Don’t like something? Say it. Like something? State it. Want something? Ask for it. Love someone? Tell it. We just have one life, keep it simple.

Faith, Perspective, and Purpose

When life feels heavy and uncertain, many turn inward—or upward. It’s never too late to make a fresh start with God. God is the best listener you don’t need to shout, no cry out loud. Because he hears even the very silent prayer of the sincere heart. God understands our prayers, even when we can’t find the words to say them. Pray for peace tonight.

Even more powerful: Praying for the people who have wronged you may or may not change them, but it will always change you. Spiritual reflection fosters peace, and peace fosters growth.

Perspective is everything. Before getting upset, always ask yourself: “Will this even matter in six months, in a year or in five years?” If the answer is no, then let it go. Half of your problems in life are not even real, so just relax.

We get so caught up in the noise of daily life that we forget what really matters. Five minutes after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion and you spend the rest of your life defending something you didn’t choose. But you can choose your attitude, your values, and your direction.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth. I am a citizen of the world. That doesn’t mean detachment—it means belonging everywhere. It means choosing unity, not division.

You can’t always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes you must dare to jump. If not you, who? If not now, when? A man who masters patience masters everything else. Take the long view, but don’t wait forever. The idea is to die young… as late as possible.

And remember—Do me a favour and smile. There’s lightness in that simple act. There’s humanity in laughter. All of me loves all of you. That kind of wholehearted love—whether romantic, platonic, or spiritual—is what gives meaning to everything.

A Life Well Lived

The world can be harsh, but you are resilient. Appreciate what you have, before it turns into what you had. The new generation of kids is different. Don’t mess with them. They’re teaching us to stand strong, speak truth, and fight for joy.

The idea is to live for one day as a lion than for 1000 years as a sheep. Don’t just exist—live. My hobbies include having no time for bullshit. Make space for what really matters.

Travel as much as you can, as far as you can and as long as you can. Life is not meant to be lived in one place. Along the way, reflect, laugh, listen, and love.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it is accepted by a majority. Truth and character will outlast every trend.

And if you’re still searching for the one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.

One day, I would like to turn on the news and hear, there’s peace on Earth. Until then, choose peace within yourself.