I suppose I can take a full-time job on the YouTube team. But I am now too big to fit in the box they consider for their employees. I am not dying for another minute of my life looking at that leetcode shit.
When I was at university, I always thought that if I didn't become a billionaire by this time, I would settle for Google. I have grown so much since; I don't know if I would have been mature enough to understand what Google is if I had worked there when I was younger.
I'd probably just hate myself every day, then look at my bank balance and find me some alcohol and women to suppress how disappointed I would be in myself.
Everything happens for a reason. But maybe "reason" is just something we make up to explain two things that happened. Things happen because they happen. All one needs to do is create the right conditions for the next thing that happens to be agreeable to them. It is one life; it doesn't really matter how you choose to live it. Know what is important to you and stay on your path to make it happen.
Every moment is equal. It is advertising, propaganda, and activism that trick you into thinking some moments are better, superior, or more painful than others. In the end, a good life is simply making the best out of the circumstances you're in, because all those posers you admire are just doing the same—if they're lucky enough to have some self-awareness about the advertising, propaganda, and activism they're exposed to.