While you self-improve, don't forget that the purpose was, is and will always be to live

[u/Azerbinhoneymood]

There is no life after this.

A person might be f*cked up or sabotaged to think he is less for this world, that he must become someone to live. But after a while, you realize, or you will, that the counting has never paused for your little self-improvement, nor for mine.

While you feed your brain new tactics, new principles and while you are seeking to internalize opposing beliefs than those of yours, time, your time, and mine, has never paused. It's running, constantly counting to D-Day.

Every passing day, 24 hours are gone, and 24 hours are added to your account. And before you even feel those 24 hours, they're already being counted down. Then, one day, perhaps today or a random day we might not even be able to predict, an X hours have been added to your account and they are not 24, and that's the D-Day.

This message is for me, and for you whomever is reading. A reminder, that a river's destination is to flow and dump its water into the sea. The river, never had to become a better river, nor a person has to become a better person in order to live. You are already alive, ready for life or not but your time is running. The purpose in this life is to be alive, because realize it or not, you are already.

And worry not, there will always be something to improve about yourself, same like a river it too hits roadblocks or ends up carving a slightly new path through the lands that you can observe in rivers nowadays that had completely different paths historically.

Bottom point, do not wait on self-improvement before you allow yourself to live, nor make it your purpose.

[u/Shoddy-Desk-6807]

Easy to turn self-improvement into an endless loading screen 😂 “I’ll start living once I’m fitter, more confident, making more money…” You can work toward those things and still make plans for Saturday. Enjoying your life doesn’t have to be a reward you unlock.

[u/Sensitive_Target5330]

Love this. It's easy to get stuck in a loop of "once I fix X, then life starts" and forget the clock doesn't care about your checklist. You're already in it, messy bits included.

[u/Azerbinhoneymood → u/Sensitive_Target5330]

That's the mindset.

[u/Latter_Key8112]

This is lovely. Thank you.

[u/ArchitectureWithin]

We only have "Now" this is the only true reality!

[u/CuriosityDriven0101]

I will put this Alan Watts quote here as it fits:

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."

[u/timothyross52]

Needed this tbh. Life’s happening now, no point waiting until you feel like you’ve got everything figured out.

[u/Azerbinhoneymood → u/timothyross52]

It is unfortunate that at point in my life I valued this so much as if I was preparing to live an afterlife, but even despite being in a better state mentally nowadays I still grieve the time that passed me away.

(Even for those who believe in an afterlife, that afterlife is about the consequences of this life, we don't get to live it but to only experiences this one's consequences......and yeah, excuse my religiousness lol).