5:7–11 So avoid comparison and the illusion of choice.47 Abide in your heart,48 for without this connection each year is more bitter than the next. Succumb to desire49 and all your treasure will be lost; your body will tire from worry; your soul consumed by doubt, and your heart brittle as glass. Your final days will be plagued with self-criticism, and your last moments haunted by regret. Your final thoughts will be cries of despair: How could I have hated discipline, and turned a deaf ear to my