You’ll never run out of problems

Instead, there is just a steady flow of them

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I thought I was on my way to this problem utopia.

This place where you have zero problems, everything is solved and you just bask in the glory of life. Once you tick off all the problems on your (rather long) list, then you can sit back and enjoy yourself.

Once you get ‘that’ job, you earn $500 a month on the side, when you sort your health out and meditate every day — then you’ll be happy, right?

Turns out, that’s not how it works. I thought it was. Once I fixed my job, built something on the side, renovated my house and so I did all the stuff, I thought I would sit in this unbelievable bliss.

But what happened when I solved those problems?

I found more problems. Small problems became big problems because they simply filled the space. I had a list as long as my arm of problems I needed to fill — the same size as the list I had before.

And here’s what I’ve learned: you never run out of problems, you simply solve them and fill the gap with a new problem.

A life without problems is a life half lived. Humans were designed to find problems that matter to them and solve them. It’s the source of great joy, it’s the source of great misery, but…