3 things you must throw away periodically, otherwise you will bring disaster upon yourself

If you haven't given up any of the three things listed below, you should take action as soon as possible.

In today's society, it seems that everyone desires to own more things without realizing that only when we strip away all the superficial things, return to reality, and be ourselves, can we have a simple and comfortable life.

In 1845, American writer Henry David Thoreau came to Walden Pond and built a small log cabin. After living there for 2 years, 2 months, and 2 days, he realized a truth:

"If a person can satisfy his basic living needs, he can leisurely, freely and comfortably enjoy life."

As you periodically let go of unnecessary things in your life, you will increasingly realize: What is it that really matters to you?

Accordingly, the 3 things that each of us needs to throw away periodically are:

1. Useless social relationships

There was once a comment like this: At a certain age, people are forced to throw away four things: Meaningless drinking parties, people who don't love you, relatives who look down on you, and fake friends.

In society, many people have probably met the type of person who always opens their mouth to talk about the four words "social relationships" and their biggest hobby is to show off and brag about how many good friends they have on social networks.

Visit these people's personal pages and you'll see: Today he goes to a cafe here, tomorrow he goes to sing karaoke somewhere else, gets drunk, passes out... he's there at every party.

However, the so-called "social relationships" cannot be built from such drinking parties. Then you will realize that the social relationships that consume so much of your time and energy are actually useless relationships.

You put your heart and soul into a relationship but in the end you bitterly realize that they don't value you at all.

If you are not strong enough yourself, those social relationships are essentially useless. Only equal exchange can get reasonable help.

Remember: Drinking a lot does not mean you are sociable. Don't let meaningless drinking sessions ruin your health and deprive you of many opportunities to have real fun.

2. Get rid of excessive desires

A female student went to the student market and saw that the clothing store was having a big sale. For less than 50 yuan, she could buy two T-shirts. When she returned to her room, she happily showed off to her friends:"Look, you can buy a shirt for less than 30 yuan, it can't get any cheaper."

But that female student did not see the deeper problem, that just calculating the cost of hiring workers and buying raw materials, that 30 yuan was not enough. So how could there be any decent products?

Indeed, after only wearing it twice, the female student had to complain to her friends that the shirt had torn seams and faded, and she would never wear it again. However, she still couldn’t bear to throw it away, so she crumpled it up and threw it in the closet.

The female student in this story was greedy and like a sick person with an incurable shopping addiction.

On her bookshelf were books that had never been flipped through, gathering dust; in her wardrobe were piles of low-quality clothes; on her bed were stuffed bears and Kitty cats scattered about… and she herself was curled up sleeping in a small corner.

Research from Harvard University found that: Successful people have a great sense of happiness and always live in a clean and tidy environment. On the contrary, unhappy people always bury themselves in a dark and dirty corner.

People with too much material desire easily lose joy. For those who want to possess everything, not willing to let go, their hearts are filled with greed and anxiety while love and happiness cannot find a corresponding place.

The ancients said: The soul will become what it contains. The more a person desires, the heavier the pressure. The more desires a person holds, the tighter the bondage. Once falling into the abyss of desire, it is difficult for people to escape.

Lust will corrode the will, corrupt the conscience and ultimately enslave us.

In fact, many people have ruined their health, reputation and character just because of desire. When a person's mind is filled with personal interests and desires, he cannot have a good character or strong will.

3. Useless information

In the current era of information technology and social networking development, the number of people becoming "slaves" to smartphones.

Many people, as soon as they open their eyes, the first thing they do is find their phone, open social media, scroll through to see what's new, go on the web to see if there's any sensational news...

Many psychologists say that people today are increasingly inseparable from their phones.

Anytime, anywhere, we are glued to the screen and lose good habits like calmly reading a book, thinking back on what we have done last week...

Our thinking is often clogged with too much information. Too much information, in the form of fragments, occupies our brain, making it unable to function systematically.

What's even scarier is that because of social networks and the amount of useless information, we pay attention to the lives of celebrities and other people's private matters, forgetting the more important and necessary things that were done before the technology boom.

Not forums, not controversial comments that "cause storms" on social networks, what we need is in-depth thinking, the ability to turn complex things into simple things.

Therefore, we need to know how to filter information so that we are not confused by useless information and lose our precious time.

According to Cafebiz