I like the life I’m leading now. No exams. No school. No work. No stress.
All the free time to do whatever I want to do.
And all the free time to learn what I want to learn.
And all the free time to think and wander off however much I want.

I’ve been thinking lately that in life there are several things which we have to fulfil to lead a meaningful, happy, peaceful and a prosperous life.

OK, let’s stop and retract our chain of thoughts.
What is life?

Say we put the following assumption into place that our life starts from the moment we are born and ends the moment we die. What can we consider a life that is worth living?

Consider ourselves lucky that we are born normal and do not have Down’s Syndrome because I still cannot figure out the reason of living a life if one is born with Down’s Syndrome. Anyone care to provide a perspective?

For me and I believe for many of us, the main benefit of being born is the ability to have a mind and conscience that is able to think rationally. And if we are able to think rationally, we should do something about our lives and not let it drift around aimlessly.

So back to my point, what can we consider a life that is worth living? There are several universal laws in this universe which we may not fully comprehend yet and there is only one way to go. You are either with the law or against the law.

Sounds convoluted? Haha….it probably is.

What I mean by universal laws are things like the concepts of chi and feng shui. Concept like karma. Universal concept on health and financial freedom. I know due to the many different forms of religion, some of you might believe or detest the existence of these concepts. But let’s just assume that they are all true and we take their teachings at face value.

Now, if we can play God and dictate our lives as we want it to be, what kind of life would we want to lead? In other words what are our priorities in life?

This is very hard but I shall try to compile my list. Do kindly comment if you think I missed out on some major aspects of life. This is not a ranking. There is still a lot of thoughts if I were to rank them.

1. Health
2. Wealth
3. Family
4. Spirituality
5. Success
6. Security

Did I miss out any broad topic about the important priorities in life? I guess the above 6 comes together. Having 5 parts while missing out on life will cause us to lead an unfulfilled life.

For example, someone might be a very successful entrepreneur. He is rich, successful, well protected by guards, have a family - but his health is failing. Or say he has everything except spirituality. After achieving all, at a grand old age of 80, he feels delusional about life. Or say he has everything except family.

I think you get my point. You can try out for any other combinations. Having all 5 while missing out one 1 will bring about sadness.

It’s pretty scary sometimes thinking that many people go about their whole life chasing several aspects of life while neglecting the others only to regret years later. But time can’t be turned around and the consequences have to be paid.

I guess I’m happy that I know that the following 6 must come together at such a young age. They used to tell us, Don’t study hard, study smart. I guess I’m gonna Play It Smart too. I’m gonna chase my monetary dreams, but I’m not gonna work my ass off. I want to be rich and retire early. Or I would like to think of this better. I want to slack and be rich. Sounds impossible? I suggest you read the following books that provide an alternative perspective towards money and financial freedom - Rich Dad Poor Dad and Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki.

Health. I’m starting to realise how easy it is to work hard everyday without exercising at all. I’m equally guilty in this aspect. I’ve not exercised for the past several months. Sedentary lifestyle….Not a very good idea. How? HOW?

Spirituality. Argh….No need to talk about this yet…..Wrong attitude. How? Perhaps a good idea is to buy a book on all the major religions in the world and read them. Then I can rationally decide whether Buddhism is really the better choice for me or being an atheist or an agnostic is a better choice.

Wait. What about feng shui? It helps us achieve success right?

All the above needs to be worked on from a young age. It’s not fair to simply avoid and postpone talking about them till old age. If we procastinate, we might regret. Geez, life is not that easy anymore right?

Guess we should all just go to some Casino and let fate decide for us.

Tags: Life, Philosophy

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