Good taste alone can take you very far in life: that's how you recognize what is worth investing your time and energy into, that's how you recognize people who are worth building relationships with, that's how you recognize and appreciate beauty and authenticity in everything.
We have so much more in common with our parents and grandparents than we realize, and if you were lucky to be in a healthy relationship with them and learned to know them well, you eventually realized that you had actually been learning about yourself all along.
the reason you suffer is because you keep treating your desire like a goal instead of an identity. but goals can fail, identities cannot. what you accept as true of yourself must manifest.
Turn your phone off. Lose yourself in a book, conversation or game. You’ll feel rejuvenated. The feeling of missing out is an illusion and a trick being played on you.