11 things in life that just aren’t worth it

How to waste 17 years of your life, a manual.

Alan Trapulionis
4 min readSep 21, 2021

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It’s funny how life changes. Things that seem like matters of life and death today can look absolutely trivial a month later. Here are my resolutions.

Dreaming of a sports car.

I dreamt of owning a shiny new coupe for as long as I can remember. I thought it would solve all of my problems.

Well, last year I had the opportunity to buy one. It didn’t go through. Then the second lockdown hit. And then I realized that the piece of metal in the parking lot wouldn’t have changed a thing.

Worshipping your relationships.

Tim Denning just wrote an amazing article about the power of loneliness. He says that it’s during periods of isolation that people come up with the most original solutions (maybe that’s why people are massively considering quitting their jobs nowadays, lols.)

I wholeheartedly agree. People may give you the impulse to improve, but real growth always happens behind the scenes. Always.

Saying ‘yes’ to everything.

Sometimes, when there’s really really really nothing you can think of doing that could make your life better, spinning the…

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