#12 Self care

"Joy is found in returning to the things we love again and again. It’s better than sex, or drink, or drugs, or food, or any other substitute for joy. The meaning of life is not found in the famous, age old question: What is the meaning of life? That is a universal question that has no answer. The right question is what is the meaning of life to me? When you stop trying to keep all the plates spinning and stop trying to do everything the world tells you and you stop chasing fantasies of perpetual happiness then you can just live your life. And then you can find the true joy of life which is spending time with family and loved ones, eating things that you like that make you feel healthy and sometimes eating something unhealthy too and being OK with it. Exercising, creating things, writing, talking, walking, recording, painting, traveling, thinking, spending time with kids and animals, whatever those things are for you, find them. When you stop worrying about all these other things then it opens up the path to the true meaning of life, which is spending time on the things that you love."