We have lost touch with what is important in life, instead we focus on the things we want to own, rather than the things we cannot own, but are lucky to have. We spend our lives working for things that don't really matter in the end; wasting our time on things we shouldn't be working on. Some people work their whole lives focusing on the things that don't matter, allowing their life to go to waste. The amount of time spent achieving those useless things could have and can be spent working towards things that truly matter. For example, some of the most important things in our lives are our family, our friends, and how we live our lives. There are some of us who go through life working for stupid things, it's hard for them to look back and call themselves successful. Those people who spend their lives working for things that really don't matter could easily identify with a character named Ivan Ilyich. If you are not familiar with the story behind this man, let me fill you in, Ilyich was a very successful judge, one day he slipped and fell on his side while trying to reshape his