Ruminations of a cautious optimist, or How to live well

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Ruminations of a cautious optimist, or How to live well

Don’t lose your inner child (Photo by Jared Sluyter on Unsplash)

Don’t take yourself or the world around you too seriously

Remember to find childish pleasure in simple things

Forgive others so you don’t carry the burden of anger against them

Don’t let things wind you up. It never improves the things, it just wears you down

Turn failures into lessons

Always move forward

Don’t fight battles you can’t win

Laugh whenever you can

Surround yourself with optimists

Be nice to people and they will smile back

Let go once in a while; get drunk, eat too much, sleep in

Remember to pause

Remember to look up

Think about what you will leave behind; don’t worry about what you won’t

To have lived and loved is to have lived well. In the end, not much else matters.