The obsession with 'becoming somebody' is a sickness sold to you by people who profit from your discontent.
A flower in the woods does not bloom to prove a point to the meadow. It simply opens because it has stored enough light.
You do not need to justify your existence. Being here is already the answer.
Animals live in the actual world. Humans live in a conceptual overlay, a dream we mistake for reality. We are blind drunk on symbols and stories, reacting to our own interpretations, not to what is actually happening.
This is going to sound crazy.
But, one of the skills you must learn in the near future is how to cope with an increasingly illiterate society of emotionally dysregulated people.
If you continue to get frustrated on a daily basis over how everything seems dumb, stress is going to silently jeopardize your health.
Boycotting was invented by Irish people to boycott an English landlord named Boycott, and sideburns were named after a Civil War general named Burnside.
10,000 years of eating bread
and suddenly in one decade everyone is gluten intolerant
3,000 years of gold as money
and suddenly in 50 years everyone is poor