What is a good life?\u00a0 I have been asking this question to myself lately.\u00a0 The definition of good life have different meanings to different people.\u00a0 Someone want to be rich and powerful, someone want to live simple and humble.\u00a0 At the end of the day, it comes down to the choice of life style.\u00a0 It is a known fact that happiness does not correlate with wealth.\u00a0 The pursuit of wealth may make other parts your life suffers.\u00a0 But on the other hand, money can fulfill many of your desires.\u00a0 One way out is to eliminate your wants like a Buddhist monk or convert your desires to intangible spiritual values that comes free like those religious people.\u00a0 It seems to me forgoing the wish for materials is an adjusted preference that people change their expectation when they realize they can’t achieve their original goal.\u00a0 Then they justify to themselves why the new goal is better than the old one by looking down on the things they once aspired to.\u00a0 I am turning middle age and I have done some reality check on myself.\u00a0 I know I can’t fulfill all my wants, so I have to discard some of them to keep myself in balance.\u00a0 I have decide what to keep and what to let go yet.\u00a0 But one thing is for sure, I won’t look down on the things I once like.\u00a0 I sacrifice some goals to archive some other goals.\u00a0 I should happy for those who can do what I can’t fulfill.\u00a0 The things I would look down on is those that I never had and never will have interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"