In the age of social media we assign so much to how other’s respond to us online. Many responses make us happy while no reactions makes us feel alone. It makes sense.
However don’t look at the other’s as a source of reference.
Instead, make decisions in the way they benefit you most.
To live the life you desire to.
Endowed with unique talents, vision & past - you are truly unique
With that in mind, you enter every situation, completely proud of what you’ve accomplished and who you are.
Sometimes, you enter a situation and you can feel people love you, you can feel they admire you, you can feel you’re loved.
Other times, life throws you a curve ball and people don’t want to talk to you.
You’re in a room, in the corner, all alone, trying to talk to people, trying to be seen.
The truth is both those two versions of you are the same people.
You can overcompensate trying to please people, getting them to like you, but what will it help? You can accept rejection, accept being an outcast and just be you. What matters is how well you walk through the fire.
Even more important is the flip side, when you’re in the room and the most powerful, the most loved person, then how do you treat the others? Will you treat them with benevolence?
The truth is most people think they will, but most people won’t. Why?
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
As negotiations are won by who care less,
Any type of social encounter is a re-negotiation of a social contract
What you should ask yourself is not how will I act
But how are my values
What do I believe in?
Do I believe in, the world being a jungle, and survival is all that matters? Do I believe in Karma?
Or do I believe in morality?
I believe in morality
I can appreciate growth in the same way I can appreciate destruction. In economics as well as in my private life.
While I accept our experience as life and death, growth and destruction, pain and happiness, fear and love.
I take in and contribute equally to both ends of those spectrums. As much id wish to be a good guy, not everyone who crosses my path is on the good end of it.
However, the way we choose to do these things and everything matters. The way to treat another person matters.
In fact, I’d go one step further and to say that it doesn’t matter if you become poor or rich, happy or sad, the only thing that matters is morality.
That’s the only interesting game in life to play. Nothing else matters.
So decide on your own rules, and live by them.