Our time is limited on this earth. It’s how we react to the outside world (Stoic) that matters, appreciate every living moment we are having on this earth, even if it’s harsh, it’s just a part of your life chapter, and you’re experiencing a real-life movie. Health and wealth are what we focus on building. Wealth is not only about financial accumulation, but it’s also about knowledge and sharing. Imagine you’re living a frugal life and saving every penny possible just to save and pass it to the next generation (your children and grandkids), do you find the meaning in it? Do you feel like spending money is actually what makes you happy?
In fact, I always tell myself that, I’m not spending all my money not just to provide safety net for my future, but also provide to my future family, and I can support my loved one anytime in-need, I feel pride and happy when seeing my loved one happy: like can you see how proud your parents are when you able to buy them a gift or invite them to a fine dining meal or giving them a free trip to the finest beach on Earth for vacation? Imagine you can gift them with supplements. I just wish that I had an infinite amount of money so I could give it away and see people smiling with joy. I see giving away for worthy people is what is more important than fulfilling one’s needs or desires. It’s better to provide education than give them free money to purchase what they need. It’s very different between gifting to parents and children. Gifting to parents is my personal way of showing respect and thankful for what they did. At least my parents can provide education and a home for me, and moreover, great advice and lessons. They are not perfect examples, but they are the only real examples where I can learn a lot from them, what can be learn and what should be avoided.
I have always been thinking about being mindful in spending money with care, eating food with care, and treating people with care. Being nice to yourself, taking your own health, and treating people right are the most important traits I’m trying to follow. It’s all about making myself feel fulfilled. I just don’t want to see people unhappy around me. I do feel stressed sometimes when things go out of place, but then I see that’s the nature of this world, where I need to adjust to it. Like, imagine when I was a kid, I always damaged things in the house, like dumping all of my mom’s cosmetics in the toilet. I do it very often, so my mom is surely really stressed about it. But then, as I’m getting older now, I have not been staying in her house for 15-20 years now, that stressful moments I was causing for her cannot last forever as time goes on. Even the sunlight can go down, imagine what would last forever, for both happiness and sorrow, an end is destined for everyone.
Although I have a lot of thoughts, I am still very focused in this very moment, trying to perfect every line of code I write. I have been writing lines of words about myself and my thoughts, and some days, this can be fed into AI as one knowledge base. People won’t need to take much time to understand me, as their questions about me can be answered. And then they find out that I’m just like everybody else, I’m no special person made of gold or some special kind of material. My desires are really like everybody else: having a home, feeling loved, and building a career. Life’s meaning for me is all about understanding this world and also what I’m doing every day to build this world.