These past couple of years, we’ve witnessed more than enough of life’s joys and sorrows.
If I’ve come to understand anything from all of it, it boils down to one simple truth: cherish your blessings to find lasting joy; modest contentment surpasses all.
If you quiet your mind and take stock of everything that has happened around you these years, you’ll find that most people have had it genuinely hard.
Some friends have faced unprecedented upheaval in their careers. Others have suffered unimaginable financial losses. Still others have encountered serious, life-threatening illness. And as for families falling apart — that has been all too common.
Yet these earth-shattering events happening to others have become so frequent that we bystanders have grown numb to them.
So if your life over these past few years has been nothing more than ordinary and unremarkable, I want to give you a big round of applause — because even that is no small achievement.
I’ve said it countless times in my articles, and to the readers who come to me for a destiny reading: the most content, most comfortable state a person can reach in this lifetime is actually not complicated at all.
It is something anyone who cultivates with patience will eventually achieve.
For instance: a stable job with decent enough pay. A few assets or small ventures where you can keep investing energy and watch them slowly grow. A circle of equally ordinary family and friends who are willing to care for you with genuine hearts.
With that, even if your life is not wealthy, you’ll enjoy a modest comfort — no worries about food or clothing — and occasionally treat yourself to small pleasures and refined tastes.
And every now and then, travel with family and friends to experience the richness of the world and savor the local customs of different places.
That kind of life — that is the truly most comfortable, most at ease, most perfect way to live.
As for those so-called great fortunes, positions of supreme power, or sky-high careers — there’s no need to chase them by force.
Yes, that kind of life may have a few years of dazzling brilliance. But the price to be paid in the end, and the corresponding risks, are more than most can bear.
Honestly — it’s not worth it.
Be clear-eyed about this: you are an ordinary person. There is no need to spend your days intoxicated by grandiose narratives about yourself.
The only things truly worth looking after are yourself and the people who genuinely care about you. Nothing more — don’t add extra drama to your own story.
All you need in this lifetime is to live simply and comfortably, avoid great calamity, make slow and steady progress each year, and never shortchange yourself in life. That is already perfect.
As for everything else — if it comes, consider yourself fortunate; if it doesn’t, accept it as fate. Do not force it.
Life is really just that simple, wouldn’t you say?
So in your quiet moments, repeat this phrase a few more times: “Cherish your blessings to find lasting joy; modest contentment surpasses all.”
Don’t worry — your understanding is good. Gradually, it will sink in.