Life is simple, and I dunno why so many people get confused about it.
There is no secret to life, living, or having a good life. Humans are complex creatures, and for some reason, we have to find a way to make everything else around us just as complex. Wake up in the morning, and go about your day. Be a good person, do what you do, and things will play out the way they will.
Everyone always gets caught up in the idea of making life better, or easier, but that’s not always the case. Sometimes you just have to accept the way things are and not worry about it. To try and do otherwise is hubris.
Sure it’s nice to take chances every now and then - ask a cute girl out, strike up conversation with the waiter in some restaraunt, or ask your professor to push an assignment back a weekend. You might get lucky, have things go your way, or you might not. But if you don’t, there’s no real use getting all upset about it, because it’s the way things are and you can’t go changing that now, after the fact.
So what do I do? I wake up each morning, and I do my school work. I have lunch and dinner with my friends, go out at night with the guys, and keep up relations with as many people as possible via AIM each day. I say hello to people I haven’t talked to in ages, hold the door for girls whenever I enter or exit a building, because it’s the little things like that that make a big difference in people’s hearts. It’s the little things…
Not everything has to be so complex as everyone seems to make it out to be.
Sure, I’d like some things in my life to change, but I’m working on a few of them now. Nothing is instant in this world except Quaker oatmeal, and even that takes about 4 minutes on high. You do what you have to do and things will take care of themselves. If not, then it wasn’t meant to be that way, and you have to accept that.