Sure you have...

For several years I have been wandering around, thinking about my place in this world, the mark I should set, what I should look like, plus the many other goals I am supposed to achieve. That's a whole lot right? It drove me nuts and sometimes to the state of mind where I even questioned life as itself!

So I quit.

No, not life. Just worrying about it.

It's all still in progress but I would like to share my thoughts with you. Maybe I can encourage some people with my post.

The media and social networks have turned more and more into a puddle of raising unrealistic expectations in any topic you can imagine. How to look, talk, eat, dress.... the list goes on and on. I mean, come-on, it has been always a business, but I've got the feeling it's getting out of hand over the last couple of years.

Whether it's fulfilling strange beauty standards, having fancy lifestyles or being famous with clearly no talent at all!

It's the same old story. Most of us were not raised with a silver spoon in our mouth, money can't buy us happiness and neither consumption nor materialism will do that!

I don't want to sound like some (de)motivational speaker, which clearly I am not...but focus on the little things people. Don't get brainwashed! Sure this all starts by yourself. I don't blame people for being successful in what they do. I blame people like us in encouraging them...and then falling for this trap, being stuck in an "airplane mode" and slightly but steadily becoming unhappy!

People tend to fall behind quickly, become depressive and feel like they are missing something. I've talked to a lot of people and the ones who had less tended to be happier.

I can hear someone in the distance whistling: ..."sure money can't buy you happiness, but I rather cry in a mansion.." bla bla.
Really? How does that improve or contributes in any kind of way? What defines you as a person?

Sure a huge cheque will make you smile - but doesn't the kind smile of a dear person makes you even happier?

So if you're still reading this: be yourself, don't try to fit in somewhere, take care and please get rid of your tv ;)