[smeej]

Don't let the world tell you what you want.

A few days before I found out a company I worked at early was going to go public, which ended up 5x-ing my net worth, I had just been thinking, "Even if I had all the money in the world, I don't think I would want to live somewhere else, or drive something else, or own other stuff."

Everybody and their brother had an opinion about what I "should" do with my newfound wealth, but having that "Don't let the world tell you what you want" refrain in my head kept me from blowing it on a bunch of stuff that wouldn't have made me any happier.