Lessons Learned in 2022

To WSO,

I developed a list of my own life lessons from this year. I hope some of you could benefit from this and maybe will bring some attention to your own life. Enjoy, and have a happy new year!

Yours Truly,

JoeHuntBBC

Lessons Learned in 2022 to Instill for Eternity

#1 – Develop and Live Your Own Life Philosophy
Many of us grow up and are under the influence of supervision, naturally. However, there becomes a time where you grow old enough to make your own decisions. You have your own life to live, no one else’s. Falling under the influence of another’s life philosophy breeds anxiety and a lost feeling of worthlessness in the end, stemming from your inability to follow it perfectly. No one has all the answers to life. Take charge and know what you want and have to do. Experience confidence and peace within yourself as you take this on.

#2 – Never Feel Guilty or Blameworthy for Other’s Dissatisfaction
You are not responsible for being other’s only source of attention and happiness. Shall they grow resentment and distaste for your lack of attention and presence, understand that it’s their own dependency and esteem issues. True love from friends and family has no attachments. Love is accepting and freeing, not controlling. Their inability to comprehend your life’s journey and position is not your own inadequacy. 

#3 – Life’s Misfortune: Let Suffer and Die
Life is extremely brutal, difficult, and suffering for everyone. Even those who seem to have a perfect life, they still experience the tragedy of life. They themselves, friends, and family eventually get sick, suffer, and die. The difference between everyone is their ability to keep it together. You can give those suffering advice as they please, but retract if nothing helps. Staying and supporting the misery will draw extreme misfortune and trouble into your own life. Spot the complaining, pessimistic, and unhappy types. It’s easier to blame, complain, and distract yourself from life than it is to take on full responsibility and strive towards happiness, peace, and success through self-improvement. Let go of the hand from those still suffering with no light at the end of the tunnel. It will feel awful to release those of who you cared about your whole life. The fact of the matter is, the weight of their depression and misfortune is heavier than your own life’s soul, causing it to pull you down off the cliff with them to your death. Learn to let go of your helping hand. 

#4 – Time is Depreciative: Spend it Wisely, Say No for Defense
Watch how you behave for a normal day and pretend that you don’t know who you are. You may be surprised to find how much time you are wasting on things that you are addicted to, but don’t realize or actually enjoy it. Social media is deathtrap for time from your own life. Even Google and YouTube are sucking your life away if you’re just mindlessly browsing and unintentionally finding things that you had no plans of searching for to begin with. You also may be wasting your life in the form of never-ending chores and favors from friends and family who may barely be benefitting your own life. Observe how you are being used. Say no to defend your life’s time at all costs. Friend needs help putting on a roof after you just sided his whole house? Roofers exist for a reason, sucks to suck if your friend can’t afford one. What else can’t he afford? Your time that you’ll never get back. It’s a Friday or Saturday night and you’d rather read a book or watch a movie and relax from grinding all week, but your friends want you to go out? You know what to do. 

#5 – Find What Works, Ignore What Doesn’t
Regarding your life’s routine, diet, and exercise, do what works for you. Ignore what other people do that works for them, but doesn’t work for you. 5 A.M. running makes you feel nauseous, but you’d rather run at 5 P.M.? Do it king, what the fck is the difference anyway? You don’t like cod or eggs but all your favorite influencers only eat it for protein? Fuk them, find your own diet that makes you feel great, and eat when you want. Feel better only sleeping seven hours instead of eight? You get the point.  

#6 – Dig Deep for Habit Triggers
Understand the triggers for your life’s desires. What’s the underlying cause of you listening to music every day? Is it to cope with life’s harshness? To daydream about being something that you aren’t? What’s the underlying cause to seek out relationships and love? To find security, warmth, and comfort that life doesn’t offer? You’ll be in for a big surprise the deeper you go with this. 

#7 – Define Your Own Version of Health
Some of this is correlated with number five, but develop your own version of health. What could make you healthier as a human being both mentally and physically? Could it be adopting a new exercise routine that you never tried? Could it be diving into a new hobby? How about mental health? What’s causing your anxiety, depression, and stress from daily life? Answering and addressing these questions will set you up for a hopefully more successful personal and professional life.

#8 – Simping: Suffer and Die
The ugliest and most realistic truth about simping is that you are the only one that will suffer and die from it. It makes no difference to Kim Kardashian or even the average female to gain an additional male follower. What comes as a result? Time wasted and nothing accomplished from your end. Because dating has now become an oversaturated market, it would be foolish for a male to waste a single breath on a female in spite of nothing. Maybe you didn’t simp your whole life but have now found a woman to connect with and have hit it off great with her, and it’s something you both want to commit to? That’s great, you’ve done it naturally and organically and that’s the way it should be. For those who never or will never experience a relationship again, it’s not the end all be all. Relationships are just one entity in life that was socially created amongst others, for better or worse. No need to cave into the pressure of tying one down for a wedding, social event, or for approval from others. Everyone goes away in the end anyway, so that shouldn’t be your life’s only mission. Not trying to scare you, but be very careful for what you wish for.

#9 – Remove and Delete Irrelevancy
Who are the people and what are the things that are just completely irrelevant to your life? Do you really need a hundred friends or those ones that you try to see every couple of years? Do you really need that junk that’s under your bed? Is it necessary to keep these people in your contacts or on snapchat who you never talk to? If you said no to any of those mentioned, it’s time to get rid of some shit so you can breathe fully once again. Don’t feel bad for crushing someone’s ego for deleting or unfollowing them, it’s obviously their problem. 

#10 – Shine Your Personality: Never Compromise and Embrace Differences
In life, we want to be around people who share the same interests that we do. Oftentimes, people you encounter are very different than you are, regarding personality. It may feel pressuring to cave into their likings and behavior to win their approval, stemming from your root of people-pleasing. Embrace that you are different. You say “Fck” a lot in speech? Keep saying it, even in front of those who feel that they are morally superior because they don’t swear (maybe don't do it at work). What should you think of those who disapprove your hobbies and personality? Fck them, you are self-reliant and don’t need anyone’s approval other than those who truly care about you.