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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joethelawyer" data-source="post: 4768427" data-attributes="member: 55764">Your life is yours to create, man.  I've been broke then had money several times so far.  I've lived the wild life, and also had to dig through the couch cushions for enough money to buy food.  I've had a lot of "stuff", enough for a 2 bedroom house, then sold and gave it all away and slept happily on a rug in a tiny studio apartment, where the sum total of all I owned fit in the trunk of my car.It's not about the stuff.  It's not about measuring yourself against everyone else. It's not about settling down into the life everyone expected you to live----and then adopting that expectation and being disappointed that you didn't get that life for yourself.  It IS about, at the end, on your dying day, is looking back and saying "I've lived a good life.  I've enjoyed it."Since we never know when we are going to die, we have to strive to make every day the best it can be.  I think it all starts with knowing who you are, accepting yourself, your past, the highs and lows, mistakes and accomplishments, and moving forward with what you learned so far.  Wherever you focus your thoughts will be what your life is all about.  If you focus on and dwell in the disappointments of the past, the future will be the same. If you IMAGINE a new future, one with all the happiness you desire, it WILL happen.  You just have to follow your gut, take chances, and live with the courage that comes from knowing that this day may be the last day I have here, and who knows if there is an afterlife, therefore I want to get the most I can out of today, and work towards making the future even better for myself and those I love.That's all there is man. Redirect your mind.  Change your focus.  Envision and imagine, believe, and it will all come to be.</blockquote>

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