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Are You Really Who You Want To Be?

When do you know the life you’re living right now is the life that you’ve always wanted?

Benny Lim
4 min readSep 29, 2021

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It’s been said that the choices you make today will shape your future in 5 years’ time. That whatever outcome from the choices you make, you will see come to fruition 5 years into the future.

Meaning to say, the life that you’re living right now is based on the choices that you’ve been making since 5 years ago.

Similarly, the person you are today is shaped by the personal choices you’ve been making over the last 5 years.

If that makes any sense to you, perhaps the question you can ask yourself now is, are you who you really want to be? The you that you are now, is it the same version that you envisioned yourself to be back then?

Personally, I’ve been asking myself this question over the last couple of weeks, months even.

And the answer that I keep finding is one that I’m not entirely satisfied with.

Hand to heart, where I am now in life is somewhat in between what I envisioned for myself 5 to 10 years ago. Back in my mid to late 20s, I saw myself settled down with a beautiful family. That is definitely something that I have (and am thankful for) right now.

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Benny Lim
Benny Lim

Written by Benny Lim

Medium writer since 2019, writing my way to a better life, and helping you lead a better life, one article at a time. https://iambennylim.medium.com/membership

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