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It’s so easy to be caught up in the busyness of daily life, like to be constantly evaluating your career goals, you’re constantly thinking about paying for your small goals like your holidays or for new fashion or a new laptop, and constantly thinking about saving for something big like a car or a house.
Isn’t it easy to lose sight of the things we take for granted when we’re trying to reach for more than our current status, always aiming High and thinking about the stakes that might seem important to us, the things that we could lose, afraid that we might fall behind others, especially when you find yourself caught in a train in the morning hustling and rushing to work, and it’s crowded, you’re thinking about how you compare to everyone else around you. The other person that looks like you, that dresses and stands like you.
I’m not good when I compare myself to others, I find myself just kicking myself down whenever I do so. When I think about all the times I’m on instagram, I just feel empty, like I’m killing time but also killing my self-esteem.
And then you go back out into the world, you’re constantly worried about what happens if you don’t succeed, and you’re worried that the odds are always stacked against you. It could be a boss that doesn’t respect you, or clients that don’t seem to understand what you’re trying to say, or colleagues that misread you.
But you got to keep in mind what might seem small to you now, might actually have a really big impact in the way that you think of yourself and your identity. It’s interesting to imagine yourself in a new car, or sitting at a restaurant with a beautiful partner, going on a trip overseas, but what about the things that are closer to home, like your own health, your mental health, your mindfulness of the effect you have on other people, and most importantly, your family.
So once upon a time, I was stuck in this repetitive cycle of every day, waking up and looking at my calendar, checking my notifications, seeing how many likes I got or how many appointments I had that day.
One day, I was about to step into a room to record a podcast interview, and I got a text from my brother, saying hey bro, I have some bad news to share with you. Because I was so busy, I was about to interview someone and I couldn’t let it affect my flow, I said, can I call you back later, and when I called him, my brother told me that my mom had suffered from severe heart pain and that she was being rushed to hospital in an ambulance for scans. Because of that, I cried, and it was super embarrassing, crying in the lobby of a coworking space, until finally, I felt compelled to book the next ticket to New York, where she currently was under medical attention.
It made me realize how much I had taken my family’s health for granted. And anybody who has been through something similar, where someone has fallen ill or seriously sick, or
