If you wait to be happy until something in the future is achieved then you really might miss happiness. This is real life right now. Don’t live like life lies ahead of you. It’s happening.
When we forget our ability to choose, we learn to be helpless. Drip by drip we allow our power to be taken away until we end up becoming a function of other people’s choices—or even a function of our own past choices. #Essentialism