Simply Improving Our Lives
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing.” - “Things That Matter” by Joshua Becker -We can stop being Our biggest critics I remember being extremely hard on myself when I was young. I would beat myself up about a mistake I made or something I said that wasn’t socially acceptable for days. I remember being anxious before going to school and while I was in school. The only time I wasn’t uncomfortable is when I was finally at home, in my room, being left alone. I could breathe, I could be myself. Throughout my childhood years people would tell me, “you’re being too hard on yourself,” but then the same people would also say, “you’re
