This Book Helped Me Figure Out My Life Purpose

Do you know what you're alive for?

I don't think everyone looks for a life purpose. If you were born in poverty, or if you're ill, you can't afford to wonder why you get out of bed in the mornings. You get out of bed because if you don't show up to work, you stand to lose your entire existence, and maybe that of your family too. You get out of bed because you don't know if you'll still be alive to do it tomorrow.

So my search for meaning is, to some extent, a luxury problem. 

Book review: The 6 things you should REALLY do before you’re 30

Hello lovelies ♥

After two weeks of ridiculous amounts of work and exam preparation (it turns out a 40+ hour job, a degree and some semblance of a social life are not easy to balance at the same time), I am finally posting… drumroll please … my first book review!

The book is called The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now, written by clinical psychologist Meg Jay. It’s a great book and I recommend it warmly, mostly because it sparked a lot of ideas for me. I’m going to share the six most important ones with you. 

The main lesson I took away from the book is to be deliberate, in the way you spend your time and in who you spend it with. More specifically, the following suggestions seem particularly useful to me: