Having it all

Having it all in life is impossible and so a series of trade-offs are constantly being made with the self. To complicate matters, what we think we want versus what we truly need are contained within the same bucket and we must parse through it to weed out what is truly essential and beneficial to our core. 

Regretably many of the lessons we need to learn are absorbed after much trial and error in life which can leave us bitter if we aren't careful. 

Having much reflected on this issue I have come to some conclusions. 

Firstly our self-respect and authenticity must be maximized such that we don't feel we are losing sight of who we are. Secondly we need to ignore public opinion as much as possible to arrive at the aforementioned things. Unfortunately it can sometimes take a lifetime to achieve these goals. 

The human animal only craves two things: to love and to be loved but we often try to achieve these desires through means that effectively block them. Our childhoods can be marred with issues that remain unresolved and cloud our vision thus diluting the purity of these noble goals. 

Getting to the core of the self involves constant examination and reseting of goals and priorities without losing sight of what is truly important.