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Living Life on Your Terms: Free Yourself from the Pressure to Be ‘Enough’

Why following your own path can change your experience from stress to satisfaction

Waleed Ahmed
3 min readNov 14, 2024
Photo by Jared Rice on Unsplash

I’ve been there, my friend.

I’ve had that feeling that nothing has meaning and my existence is absolutely futile. I know where you are right now, and it’s not pleasant, but it’s the best thing that might ever happen to you.

Why?

Because it’s when you feel lost that you’re open to guidance and you’re willing to try new perspectives and different approaches to your life that you never thought were possible.

It’s precisely when you feel nothing has meaning and you’re going nowhere that you are more open to change your life perspective to one that suits you better and serves you in a better way.

My life changed when I understood these concepts:

  • Life has no built-in meaning. So if you feel life has no meaning, you’re right, but not in a negative sense. You are the one that has to give meaning to your own life experience by focusing on what really matters to you and what makes you feel good.
  • You are enough as you are. You always were, you will always be. You don’t need to become anybody, achieve anything or get…

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Waleed Ahmed
Waleed Ahmed

Written by Waleed Ahmed

I'm Waleed Ahmed, and I'm passionate about content related to software development, 3D design, Arts, books, technology, self-improvement, Poetry and Psychology.

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