I heard about us having limited energy but I never understood it until someone explained it really well. A concept of our time being limited is easy, but limited energy? Physical and mental capacity to live life to the fullest or to barely exist is directly affected by how much precious energy we give to other people and how much we keep for ourselves or get in return. Turns out, even thinking about someone is giving away energy, but if they don’t think about us, if they don’t reciprocate, it doesn’t return to us – when a person we think about doesn’t invest their own energy into us we don’t get it back. So much depends on us having that precious energy, it’s as precious as time itself. When we have energy we are happy, energetic, we live life to the fullest, enjoy ourselves, create, love, and we have mental resources to give attention to our friends and to other people. When we are low on energy we feel tired, mentally and physically exhausted, we can even get depressed or sick; life feels like we swim in white rapids, just barely seeing what’s around us, trying to stay afloat. That’s how important energy is – it literally decides the quality of life we live. We need to be mindful of how we spend it. We need to have it full in us because it is the life itself.

Inspiration: Matthew Hussey.