We live in unprecedented busyness, screen addiction, and endless streams of illusions.
We chase happiness outside ourselves.
We compare ourselves to carefully filtered, staged images, constantly feeling like we’re falling short.
We keep waiting for the next moment – the next goal.
But happiness doesn’t work that way.
In a world constantly pulling at your attention, it feels like you always need to be “on.”
Like you’re missing something if you aren’t constantly watching, responding, sharing, or engaging.
You know the feeling – that compulsive urge to share every moment.
But what if flipping that idea around is exactly the key to real peace?
What if you could embrace JOMO – the Joy of Missing Out?
Not needing to be everywhere – except right here, in this present moment.
Not needing to be constantly updated.
Choosing the freedom of less.
Less noise. Fewer distractions.
More space. More time.
What truly matters?
When time is limited, everything superficial falls away.
What’s left is what genuinely counts:
Real connection.
Authenticity.
Inner peace.
The times we live in demand conscious choices.
Will you keep choosing distraction, or will you choose yourself?
Now is the moment to take back control.
To genuinely connect.
With yourself. With others.
With life itself.
Because in the end, it’s about one thing:
Living from your heart.
Genuine, pure, timeless.
“It is quite possible that while looking back on our lives, we realize that we never truly lived; that by constantly judging and comparing, we let the real life pass us by. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher
Are you ready to truly start living?
“Once upon a time, there was an emperor who, observing all ceremonial rituals, allowed himself to be buried alive. His entire endeavor might have been mere curiosity, but to witness your own death – to see the coffin close upon you – is to realize that all worldly concerns cease in death.
Dying is everyone’s fate, and thus relatively easy. But to truly know how to live well, that is life’s greatest wisdom. What makes the difference? It lies not in the seriousness of death itself, but in the seriousness with which we live – knowing we are mortal. For meaningful words are spoken not to the dead, but to the living.”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher⁶
6 Kierkegaard (1845), 2011, p.92 S. Kierkegaard, God zoeken, liefde en dood, Amsterdam: Buijten & Schipperheijn Motief (Tre Taler ved tænkte Leiligheder 1845, translated into Dutch by Lineke Buijs and Andries Visser).
English translation by the author, based on the Dutch edition.
