I Want to Live at My Own Pace. What I Realized While Chasing Someone Else's Dreams
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AuthorХа Ван
We live by rules built on the traditional expectations of society, such as entering university, finding a good job, and starting a family. Ha Van wonders who set these "rules" and whether one must follow them for life to be considered successful. Realizing he was chasing this ideal life, he decided to stop and rethink his path. He quit his job and began seeking answers to life's fundamental questions, starting a personal experiment that was risky but important for his inner growth. In this book, Ha Van honestly and seriously shares his fears and thoughts, seasoning them with humor through ironic illustrations. He depicted himself as a character in underwear, symbolizing his desire to free himself from societal expectations and find his own values. This blend of seriousness and humor helped him and may help you more easily accept reality and consider finding your own path and moving along it at your own pace, rather than following the beaten paths. QUOTES: Hard work does not always pay off. And lack of hard work does not necessarily mean lack of reward. All you need is a feeling of ease. I let go of the desire to live an outstanding life. Passion fades. If you misuse it, when it is truly needed, you'll be left empty-handed. I don't think marriage is bad or something to renounce. I just say that I myself will not enter it, but the world seems not to accept this. Either way, it's exhausting to live differently from everyone else. Living well does not necessarily mean being rich. But on the other hand, the phrase "I wish you to get rich" sounds like coercion: "You must get rich. Otherwise, you are doomed to be unhappy. Wealth is the most important thing. Everything else doesn't matter." There are many paths in the world. Stubbornly sticking to only one means rejecting all others. It takes courage to retreat in time. Courage to admit failure. Courage to simply let go of the efforts and time spent that have yielded no results. Courage to try something new after failure. Perhaps we don't really know what we want and live filling the void with useless things. In a world where everyone works hard, efforts go unnoticed. This only raises standards and makes life harder. As I age, my anxieties and worries haven't disappeared, but the reason I don't get so worked up may be that I don't worry about things I can't influence.






