When was the last time you sat down to evaluate your life, ask yourself really, where am I going, was it a terrible terrible idea to have done the thing that I did last month, and is this what I want out of my life, I mean, whatever I'm doing right now? Probably a long time ago -- I'm answering the question I began asking at the art of the previous sentence before getting distracted by my own personal issues -- if you even ever did that. It's important to evaluate your station in life, identify if this is where you want to be compared to where you aspire to get, and adjust your trajectory accordingly. Studying rocket science and working for NASA isn't going to get you into Julliard's so one needs to get their priorities straight.
It sounds simple but has given much grief to even the greatest most successful of people. Because going in the default mode, going with the flow is easy, you can use your brain and body power for doing other tasks that don't give you existential insecurity about life, force you to evaluate all the decisions you have made in the past, or others have made for you, and consider how life might have been different if one of the things had been different. Not for the purpose of feeling bad, but to identify what your future should look like.
It's annoying that sometimes people will actively reject evaluating their options or future prospects, because the default option seems too much fun, too set to be thought about. I'll think about those things when I absolutely have to they say, forgetting that not deciding on something doesn't mean you can escape the game, but that you chose to take the default option. Quite often, the default option is not optimal for anybody involved, but people go along with it anyway because thinking about options is scary, and you actually have to peer deep inside your heart to identify what it is that you really want.
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