Dear Internet, I’m Tired of Your Life Advice

Please, can we share our story without telling others what to do?

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The Internet, once a playground of discovery, has become an echo chamber of “shoulds.”

Scroll through any corner, and you’ll be bombarded with unsolicited advice: “5 Habits to Be More Productivity,” “The Secret to Finding Your Passion in Life,” “How to Quit Your Job and Travel the World”.

Everybody’s life mission now is to tell others what to do. There’s so much you do this, you do that, you are this, you are that… you you you. Most of the time, with little to zero evidence of what the speaker did to give them the permission to tell us what to do.

And guess what? I. Am. Tired.

• Tired from feeling like I’m constantly behind on my to-do-list to catch up in some race to success I never signed up for.

• Tired from the pressure to constantly optimize, monetize, and “level up” my life.

• Tired from the nagging suspicion that I’m somehow failing at this invisible game called “adulthood.”

But how deep is the ocean of advice, really? How many life gurus are out there sho…