The question that changed everything
Nobody told us that the real test of life wouldn’t be failure.... it would be getting everything we wanted and still feeling… incomplete.
You grow up thinking the goal is success. But success is just a place. What matters is who you became to get there.
We’re all chasing milestones— salary, status, security— but somewhere along the way, we stopped chasing meaning.
We wear our busyness like armor. We confuse being needed with being valued. And when it finally gets quiet— when the notifications stop and the day ends— you’re left with a version of yourself you barely remember choosing.
It’s not burnout. It’s the soul whispering: This life you’re living — is it truly yours?
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Take a 10-min AI interview to qualify for numerous real jobs auto-matched to your profile 🔑I too keep doing things just for feeling busy. How to break out of this? Its hard to just sit down and relax. I even stopped taking naps for years now even if i have time, but I used to love naps
You want to break out of it? Then stop waiting for peace to come find you. It won’t.
The system is designed to keep you distracted.... so you never question it, so you never sit still long enough to hear your own soul screaming.
Here’s what you do: Start small. Take one nap. Not because you’re tired—because you need to reclaim your time. Sit for 10 minutes a day with no phone, no screen, no purpose. Just sit. It’ll feel uncomfortable. That’s good. That discomfort? That’s your mind detoxing from chaos.
Then ask yourself one hard question every night: What did I do today that was truly mine? Not your boss’s. Not your calendar’s. Yours.
Do that for 7 days. You’ll either feel a shift… or you’ll finally see what’s holding you hostage.
And either way— you’ll wake up.
"we confuse being needed with being valued " Top notch line.... Had to think again whether I was being valued or not at different things
This is beautiful and i need this realisation