Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.
Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.
Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.
I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.
The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.
All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.