What Truly Matters to You?

Every Time You Open Your Phone

Open social media, and a glamorous world floods your screen. Luxury restaurants, exotic vacations, successful careers, perfect relationships. Turn on YouTube, and people living their "ideal" lives are talking right at you.

Without realizing it, have we started focusing only on "what we lack"?

There's nothing wrong with admiration itself. But is that admiration truly coming from within you? Or have you just convinced yourself that "I should be like this too" after seeing someone else's life?

Are You Living Someone Else's Life?

When did the definition of "success" become something others decide for us?

Income, follower count, where you live, what you own. How much time do you spend measuring yourself by these metrics and comparing yourself to others?

Of course, having goals is important. But whose goals are they?

A Simple Question

Let's pause here and think for a moment.

What truly matters in your life?

You might feel like you don't know. That's natural. In the busyness of daily life, we rarely have time to sit with this question.

There's no need to rush to an answer. What matters is keeping this question somewhere in your heart.

Happiness Runs Away When You Chase It

When we think "I want to be happy," we tend to see happiness as something out there in the future. Once I get this, once I achieve that, then I'll be happy.

But strangely, even after getting "this" or "that," another "this" or "that" appears.

Perhaps happiness isn't something to chase, but something to notice in this present moment.

What Is Your True Self?

We often hear the phrase "I want to find my true self." As if it's a hidden treasure waiting to be discovered somewhere.

But is the true self something to "find"? Or is it something we "create" through our daily choices?

Or perhaps, the "true self" doesn't exist as something fixed—maybe it's more like a constantly flowing river.

I don't have the answer. But I believe there's meaning in continuing to hold this question.

Living with Questions

After reading this article, you may not have found any clear answers. In fact, you might have even more questions now.

But I think that's okay.

What matters in life isn't having the right answers, but holding the right questions.

Don't be distracted by others' glamorous lives. Ask yourself. In that quiet time of self-reflection, your own answers are waiting.

What matters isn't giving answers, but realizing things for yourself through questions.

In Closing

This article cannot give you "the answer." But if even one question stayed with you, please treasure it.

In your daily life, when a quiet moment comes, remember that question. There's no need to rush to an answer. Just living with questions—that itself might be the first step toward a life that's truly yours.

What truly matters to you?

The answer is nowhere but within you.