If you are stuck in an existential crisis imagine you could go back an be any version of you in the past The caveat is you don’t get to add anything ie it’s exactly as you were not smarter not fitter etc Then imagine a future where you could be smarter could be fitter and could be a better person For most people regardless of age they have the opportunity to live a better version of themselves that’s older than the one in the past So yearn for that person You have to orient your life so the best is ahead albeit in different ways ie if you are 60 it’s to grow wiser and to see your grandkids grow up Life is over once you start clinging to the past as the past gets further away from you each day and inversely your life gets worse by the day Everyone subconsciously wants to just be a better version of themselves not to be someone else If you had the option to transport into Elon musks body and you were now him and the you now disappear- most outside abject poverty or near death would not take it Just as you would not take 100 billion dollars to skip your life and die tomorrow Similarly why I advocate for low touch long term investing - unless day trading brings you absolute joy in itself you are wasting your life and overcompensating by buying stuff to make it feel valid You sit at the computer all day stressed out while your gf is on the couch asking when you want to do something - you justify it by buying her something every now and then until all you have is a transactional IG relationship - all pictures no substance Old people that say that lived a great life have 2 things 1)people they love and love them 2)the journey was both the means and the end You win from the second you decide to live that life