For a long time, I believed life improved by expansion.
More learning. More ideas. More refinement. More output.
Most lives don’t unravel because people lack intelligence or effort.
They unravel because attention spreads across too many directions, without a stable center.
Over time, I’ve come to see that life repeatedly returns to just three subjects:
Health. Relationship. Finances.
Not as goals.
Not as self-improvement categories.
But as the three places where life touches reality.
Everything else is commentary.
I’ve learned not to argue with that.
Health — The Body That Holds You
Health is not performance.
It is capacity.
When the body weakens, even simple decisions feel heavy.
Clarity fades not because insight is missing, but because energy is.
To take care of health is not to optimize life.
It is to remain available to it.
Walking, rest, breath, sleep, natural rhythm —
these are not routines to master,
but conditions that hold you together.
Relationship — The Space Where You Live With Others
Relationships are not tasks to manage.
They are integration.
If you are married, your partner is not a responsibility in the moral sense.
They are part of your life’s structure.
When presence replaces performance,
and responsibility replaces expectation,
relationships stop demanding effort
and start offering ground.
Not everything needs resolution.
Some things need only honest contact — and time.
Finances — The Ground Beneath Daily Life
Finances are often misunderstood as ambition or greed.
They are neither.
Money is structure.
It determines how predictable your days are,
how many negotiations you must have with life,
and whether care can be offered without anxiety.
Without financial stability,
health becomes fragile,
and relationships absorb strain they were never meant to carry.
The work here is not expansion.
It is containment.
One clear exchange.
Clear boundaries.
No silent leakage of energy.
When structure returns,
dignity follows.
Why Only Three Subjects
Because when life becomes difficult,
everything else collapses into these three.
You don’t need more frameworks.
You need fewer directions.
Reducing life to Health, Relationship, and Finances
is not withdrawal.
It is proportion.
It removes drift.
It restores orientation.
It brings attention back to where life is actually lived.
A Quiet Declaration
For this year — and likely beyond —
I study only these three subjects.
If something strengthens health, relationships, or financial stability,
it stays.
If it doesn’t,
I let it pass.
Not out of discipline.
Out of care.
Health. Relationship. Finances.
That is enough.
—
Aniruddha Singh