Thoughts on Life and Happiness
Learn weird skills – get caught on a flying trapeze, make a mess learning to juggle apples and oranges in your kitchen with a friend, take your grandparents curling at an ice rink, go rock climbing – Memories matter more than anything else you can do.
Be generous to everyone. Give important things away to friends; they'll always remember you for it. See the infinite potential in everyone you meet. Ask for help more than you offer advice. People love to offer advice, but are usually uncomfortable asking for it. You'll help balance the world.
Remember that any two people can be perfect together, as long as both people are focused on each other happy. Don't believe nonsense about anyone being out of your league. Actively pursue people who excite you, and ignore people who don't see what you do. People see things differently. While you're thinking "But she's chewing with her mouth open!" he's thinking, "Waking up next to her makes me forget my dreams."
Help people take away the stressful and boring parts of their days, and help them fill that time with things that make them smile uncontrollably. Take friends to places with lots of sunshine and ocean; give them a zen moment. Create stories. Listen to stories. Meet people from all over the world and discover what they care about. Compulsively offer help to people you don't know, and actively do things today that you planned to do later. Stay in shape, eat fresh vegetables, and cook with people who love food more than you do. Talk to old people who lived great lives, they'll inspire you.
