As a man,
When you finally get your own apartment,
Kindly entertain the possibility that a friend may need to squat with you for a few days, weeks, or even months.
When that happens, give that guest or friend of yours the best hospitality you can afford.
There will be days you'll miss your privacy, but never give your friend an attitude or make him feel like an unwanted guest.
No temporary inconvenience is worth sacrificing a genuine friendship.
Most times, squatting is only temporary, and it may be one of the few moments in life when your friend truly needs you.
There will be frustrating days, but never fall into the temptation of talking down to your friend or making him feel like a burden.
Never deny a man a space to rest his head.
Today it's him. Tomorrow it could be you.
Be kind.
if you genuinely see yourself as someone who is HEADING TO THE TOP
then the small losses don't matter
- who cares if ur car breaks down
- who cares if that dumb broad leaves you
- who cares if you get no money from the next 4 sales calls
- who cares if your mum shouts at you
- who cares if you get humiliated
- who cares if you take some losses
it's all irrelevant
because in the end - you are going to win
that's it.
the end.
I keep on revisiting this. You might not realize the depth of what he said. In urdu poetry, there is a concept where poets view God as a lonely being, so lonely that He created free willed humans for company. Loneliness is a Godly trait & whoever enters its realm meets God there
RECOVER FASTER THAN EVERYONE
Lose the day. Come back at night. Miss the gym. Go tomorrow. Waste a week. Win the next one. Get embarrassed. Stay visible. Get rejected. Try again. Fall behind. Move anyway. Stop turning every mistake into a new identity. Stop making failure mean more than it does. Stop disappearing every time life proves you’re still human. The men who win aren’t perfect. They just don’t stay gone.
The cheat code is simple.
Become impossible to keep down.
A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:
“It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”