“You will lose friends, you will lose lovers, You will lose comfort, but if in losing them, You find yourself, you have gained more than Kings.”
*- Marcus Aurelius
Major cheat code in life: Understanding you can reinvent yourself at any time. New habits, new standards, new gym, new clothes, new friend group, new career, etc. There's no rule that says you have to stay the person you've always been. You're allowed to decide... "I'm done being this version of me."
Learn to sit with yourself. Be happy with the ordinary. If you can’t find peace in a quiet cup of coffee, no amount of distraction will ever feel enough. Be bored. Do nothing. No phone. No stimulation. Just you. Let that restlessness inside you settle. Let your mind slow down first. Then add a coffee. A book. A walk. And you’ll realize the life that you actually wanted was already here.
I don't hate socializing. I just love being home. Vibing and chilling alone. Where it's quiet. No small talk. No drama. No pretending to be someone I'm not. Just me. Reading. Thinking. Writing down my musings. Some music. Watching old movies. Some staring at the wall. Being bored. Feeling life deeply. Some people call it boring. To me, it's where I feel most like myself.
Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
KALAU COWOK UDAH MULAI:
• Rutin olahraga
• Mulai jaga pola makan
• Lebih banyak diam daripada banyak ngomong
• Nyaman pergi dan melakukan sesuatu sendirian
• Mulai serius mikirin masa depan
• Uang nggak cuma dihabisin, tapi mulai ditabung dan diinvestasikan
Biasanya ada sesuatu yang sedang berubah dalam hidupnya.
Bukan berarti dia tiba-tiba jadi dingin atau nggak peduli sama orang lain.
Dia cuma mulai sadar kalau hidupnya perlu diberesin.
🗣️ : "ko lu g tkut sih di jauhin sma tmn-tmn dkt lu?"
Me : "ngpain tkut, justru di stu wktunya buat grow up dri gua. Gua bsa pnya bnyk wktu buat ngebnerin mindset, buat ngmbangin knowledge, gua bsa ngebntuk bdan, gua bsa tdr teratur. Intinya, sndiri tuh g sesepi itu".
When Carl Jung said:
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”
Stop consuming other people's lives. They are not better than you. They are simply living their own. You live yours. Do things that you find exciting. Follow your interests. Write a book. Start a business. Teach something that feels like play to you. Start a Vlog on the thing you've been obsessed about since you were seven. Don't become a spectator in your own life. You are the main character. You are the hero of your story. Not them, You. Remember that.
People who reach a high level of awareness become unsociable. Crowds drain them. Noise overwhelms them. Small talk feels like work. They chill different. A cozy room. Two people they trust. Good food. Music. Conversations that actually mean something. That’s where they feel alive. Depth over noise. Because for them... peace feels like home.
I love being alone. At home. All day doing nothing. Eating snacks, watching movies, music, books, strolling around, random dance, cooking, pausing at the window. You may find it meaningless. But for me, it's eveything. The ordinary. The little things. But you won't get it.
There’s an old Chinese proverb that I love:
“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”
Be boring. Don't chase trends. Don't follow opinions. Do your own thing. Things that feels right in your heart. Wake up early. Go for walks without music. Read books that takes weeks to finish. Watch old films nobody talks about. Music that's rare. Build a private, unimpressive life that makes you deeply happy. A slow life that feels like your own. That's all that matters.
This sentence from Carl Jung hits hard.
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”