Remember to live while you’re busy surviving!

Hello everyone! How are you? I hope you have a very wonderful day today.

First, I just want to give thanks to my awesome sponsors. Thank you so much and may God bless you with more love and happiness in your life!

The estimated average life expectancy is 78 years and the retirement age is 67. We are hardly working for 50 years to us to enjoy at least 11 years. Start enjoying life now, no one is guaranteed tomorrow!

There are a lot of us who have no choice but to hustle and work hard early and every day of our life. Not everyone has rich parents, and some of us have no inheritance and no privilege in some aspects of our life.

We have no choice but to shed blood, tears, and sweat to get and go where we are today.

For all the breadwinners out there like me, I know you know how it feels.

This morning, I read a quote that says: Remember to live while you’re busy surviving!

Honestly, it makes me feel sad somehow, I don’t know why but I started to reflect on myself.

It’s not that I’m regretting the things that I have right now that’s why I’m feeling sad, I feel sad because honestly, I forget to live for the past few years of my life. 

I forget how to enjoy myself with others; I forget to enjoy myself in everything. And yes, I forget to live with myself.

Aside from my work, I focused also on how to have an extra income to surpass and sustain the needs of my loved ones, and my family.

 There are moments in my life when I get envy and feel pity for myself because I see some of my friends; people of my same age are already living their lives to the fullest, enjoying the things that they have.  While here I am, hustling, grinding and working hard to survive.

Being a breadwinner is not that easy, there are times that I feel exhausted, stressed, and burn-out about everything. I’m only human, I’m not perfect and I’m not strong all the time. Because of responsibilities, struggles, and unexpected hardships in our life, I feel weak sometimes.

But yes, I have no choice but to survive, as long as it’s for my family, I will do everything whatever it takes.

But then I realized, we can do both. we can choose to live with ourselves while surviving with our life!

So I started to have some time with my friends, and have a moment with my loved ones. I make some time to relax and go to places where I can breathe and release my stress. I eat foods that make me feel good.

I also pamper myself when I'm done with my tasks. Buying the things I need and the things I want, after all, I deserve it sometimes.

In this way, I learned to love myself every day. This is not about forgetting any of my responsibilities but making myself productive even more.

We need to live, and we need to live happily at the same time.

It’s just about being responsible for your priorities and being disciplined with your time.

We don’t need to push too hard on ourselves. Unwind, and have a break. You need to take some rest from your exhausting world to take yourself away from burnout and stress. Enjoy some moments with your loved ones, and make those times be the best moment of your life.

It’s not just we’re running out of time, it’s because every second matters.

We should live the life that we want and enjoy things that we need. Do it now, because we are not guaranteed to enjoy life tomorrow!

Choose to live when you still have time; choose to be happy before it’s too late.

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