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Man Is, After All, An Island
All said and done, we are born alone and will die alone. There are seven important axioms of belief to shield yourself while going through life, and protecting yourself in dealing with expectations, disappointments, and judgements imposed by those around.
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We Are Insignificant
A natural extension to being born alone and dying alone is the understanding that nothing you do, or don't do, has any meaningful significance in the grand scheme of things. Trying to find meaning in life has a high probability of leading to a path of depression and disillusionment.
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There Is No Grand Plan
Our lives are a garland of serendipitous events. We are not part of a grand plan, no matter how much math, faith or philosophy we deploy to justify it. We are a dot is a random chain of events having bigger brains than most animals, and we consume ourselves trying to make sense of our roles in the universe. There is no elaborate cause-effect that has led us to where we are where we are, individually.
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Don't Try To Fail
No matter how much someone advises to try and try till you succeed, don't! Unless you are paid for it! There is only futility and an opportunity cost leakage in trying and achieving sub-optimal outcomes. Pick the battles that can be won. Fighting battles and trying to achieve a better outcome over and over is generally a recipe for a life wasted!
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Being Who You Are Is Not A Virtue
Every one of us is wired different - fingerprint to genetic coding. So nothing you do will escape judgement from those who are in the audience. Be to others who they want you to be at a superficial level. Most people cannot tell fake from genuine anyways. Be yourself only when in the shower or on a boat by yourself. It limits the number of expectation conflicts you will have to encounter.
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Make Your Own Faith And Choices
Not everything is about you. Every person gets the right to decide their own faith and make their own choices. So preaching and enforcing your choices on another person is selfish and you will be resented. Choose your faith and actions based on your own moral and physical compass as long as they do not impact the way your brethren choose to believe and act. And be ready to own and suffer the consequences in their entirety.
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Listen, Absorb, Be You
Everyone has an opinion. Listen to every opinion; at the very least the dispenser feels heard. But do not live by what someone else says is the right answers. A natural corollary of making your own choices is that there are no moral absolutes. You have to first put your own mask on before helping others. You first because without you nothing else will have any existence relative to you.
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Plan For Contingency
It's good to hope as long as you have a plan B. Everyone is dealt a random hand of cards and there isn't a perfect hand. So plan for losses and do not bet on winning as a matter of hope. Because 9 / 10 times the unexpected will happen
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