The best advice I ever received was “To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.”
Just kidding. The best advice I ever received was from my tennis coach: “When in doubt, call it out.”
Just kidding again, but my tennis coach actually did give me the best advice. I’m sure he stole this from someone else, but the advice was something like:
It’s embarrassing to have been concerned with the problems of mankind for all your life and find out at the end that no one has more to offer by way of advice than “try to be a little kinder.”
I think this really stuck with me because I get super concerned with thinking about how one day, everyone on Earth right now will be dead, and everything we ever did won’t matter, and so what’s the point of even following this arbitrary system of living, like going to school to get good grades to get into a good college to get a good job, so when I have kids they can go to a good school and get good grades and...and I spiral deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole. Anyway, whenever I think about how meaningless our lives seem, I remind myself of this quote. Our lives may seem meaningless, but the emotions we make others feel certainly mean something to them. If we can make the people around us happier, that is certainly not meaningless. Just because we won’t have any significant effect on all of eternity doesn’t make our actions invalid. At the end of the day, the only thing that really matters, the only thing that seems especially meaningful to me, is how you made others feel.
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