“Go on, be a go-getter!” “Good things come to those who wait”. “Be sensitive and tender-hearted” “Be tough and thick-skinned!”. “Successful people do not sleep! They burn the midnight oil” “You need about 8 hours of sleep to be productive”. “Put yourself out there. Grab life by the horns. Go hard!” “Take it easy. One step at a time, Rome was not built in a day”. “Live life to the full and don’t look back” “Take time to reflect, life is best seen in hindsight”. “Stay hungry” “Be satisfied with what you've got”. It seems to me that there is so much advice out there about how to live life. When presented as a collection of punchy phrases they seem a contradictory bunch, don’t they? The truth is I don’t think anyone really knows the formula to live a happy life. Really, how could we know when we are all having our first go at this? As a lady in her 20s, it’s not unusual that I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what I must do to build
~ by Faith, in Hope and through Love ~