balance

Yesterday, I was talking to my dear and old friend from Poland (friends since 2002) and was trying to cheer her up (everyone has challenges in theirs lives!).

The outcome of this conversation was:
-one shouldn't focus their lives on their families - it will hurt too much when a member of your family dies!
-one shouldn't focus on earning money - it will be hard to survive when your money is gone or when you have less of them than usually!
-one shouldn't focus on job - retirement or losing job will be tough to face!
-one shouldn't focus on relationship - they never last forever!
-one shouldn't focus on friends - they come and go or if not that, they die eventually!
-one shouldn't focus on any single thing! if you lose the centre of your life, the supreme goal you will be really depressed and recovery process will take too long (in worst cases it may never finish)

So what should you do?
What I do and what seems quite successful is to try to have balance between every aspect of your life. It's not easy but it's possible (anyway, who says life is easy??:) You have to care about friends, family, love, money, work and anything else that is important in your life. But don't put too much focus on only one aspect with forgetting about other ones! I don't say that I'm expert in achieving that but I've got the feeling that I'm closer and closer to ideal state. You have to diversify sources of your happiness. In case you lose one, you will still have others to keep you in better shape!

Enjoy living balanced life! :)