How do you live a "GOOD" life? Thoughts of a depressing college student...

     I think everybody on this planet, okay let's not generalize... maybe not everybody, but it's a common goal to live a GOOD life. That is just common sense right? But HOW do you do that? How do you achieve that "good" life?

     And I am talking about GOOD as in satisfactory. I am not going to include factors such as emotional issues or natural disasters. I am not going to predict your love life, and I do not plan to become a weather forecaster. Mother nature will screw us over once in a while, our hearts will betray us, but this is about the parts of life we can control.

AND pretending the job industry is good "enough" that you can find a job. Not including job industry/market crashes. And this is not for people working in safety/protection workers like firemen/policemen/etc (because they have additional "risk" factors in their work).

There are quite a few alternatives/lucky chances you already have your life set out for you:

• You come from a wealthy family. 
• This can only guarantee YOU a good life if:
• Your family doesn't do anything to screw with the law
• They don't go on some shopping spree and go bankrupt 
• They love you and hope to pass the money on to you, if they remember to put you in their will
• And once YOU receive the money, you don't spend it all recklessly (but if your parents are wealthy and nice, they'll just supply you with more... hopefully)
• If the above rules do not apply to you, and you just happen to have a wealthy family, the best you can do is enjoy the luxury until your parents kick you out, and then you fall into one of the categories down below 
• You marry someone wealthy
• This will guarantee you a "good" life if:
• They love you/trust you/want to spoil you and is willing to share their money with you
• Your spouse follows the law/not a drug dealer (additional risks/benefits)
• They don't go on some shopping spree and go bankrupt 
• But for some reason something happens and it doesn't work
• You realize they're some money rich scumbag and cheat on you and you get a divorce (which you might get some money, especially if you win custody of a child, to keep you satisfied for a long time. But if you get screwed over, you fall into the next few categories)
• You win the lottery
• This will guarantee you a good life if:
• You don't go on some shopping spree and end up with NADA again
• You get robbed
• The government tricks you
• You don't break the law/do something stupid that will cost you a lot of money
• But pretend you did mess up... and did exactly what you shouldn't have done, and once again, you drop into a unfortunate category...

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Now this is where it gets tricky. I am trying to divide the "average people" or the people that do not fall into the categories above. And just saying for EXAMPLE that somewhere in your life you don't get the lucky break and you do not belong in the "fortunate category." Just bear with me here...

AND you don't do anything stupid that will perhaps veer you off course 

• Let's say you're a student deciding how to make your life great for yourself, and you don't apply to the fortunate situations above, and once again, there are subcategories below them too! 
• Now being honest... as a student myself I have no idea at all what my future looks like. I can't even decide what to eat. So this is all theoretical. 
• You are... 
• Are a brilliant student:
• Success: 
• You show you're intelligence in school, you put yourself out there to people (networking skills) and you get an amazing job -> leads to success (theoretical) 
• You show you're intelligence and you are also independent. You start your company and succeed. YAY. 
• Failure:
• You're a genius, but you're lazy and you don't do well in society 
• You're intelligent but you're very shy and quiet... you don't stand out enough to prove yourself at an interview or start your own company. You're just hidden talent doing a mediocre job
• Are an average student (this is where I fall)
• Success:
• You work your ass off and prove yourself in a job and wait for a promotion 
• You work your ass off and save your money little by little, purchasing whatever you want along the way and maybe in 30-50 years you can retire (I will make a new post on this alone)
• You gather some guts and start a company (and G-d blesses you it becomes successful)
• You work your ass off, earn  your money, and eventually retire
• Failure:
• You drop out of school and is not lucky enough to find a job where they will accept your w/out your degree
• You become lazy and don't care about working...
• You don't have education, nothing
• Success:
• You work a normal job like pizza delivery, cashier, etc - you save your money and manage to buy yourself the life necessities 
• You save your money and you start your own business -> then becomes a success (like many famous successful drop-outs! Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook co-founder), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (apple), etc)
• Failure:
• You just don't do anything. 

In the event that you are a normal student, and you go to school (let's pretend you're me). You have to pay for your tuition and your fees along the way. You graduate at the age of 22-24 (not including Masters/PhD.). Pretend you don't have a job during college, which means you don't start saving money until 22-24 years old (and you're not blessed with any property/money when you do graduate). And you have to work for another 20-50 years before you can retire...

So you're asking me where's the "good" in life? This is where you just have to break some nights, have some fun at some clubs over the weekend, maybe take a week off vacation with some well deserved break. That's probably all the "good" life most people will get.

SOOO really, just live your life while you're young! Save what you can, LEARN TO SAVE, learn to enjoy life, love, give yourself a well deserved break once in a while, and just LIVE. Because most people (like me) are just going to have a mediocre life anyways, but we can all make it special somehow. ;)

Aren't you so happy you read that far for such a simple conclusion. Ha. Now enjoy the nice pictures below. x)

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