One of the most common source of our misery nowadays is the feeling of failure in life. The rapid progress of our technology and society has been leaving us individuals to feel like we’re getting left behind in the pursuit of advancement. The subcultures that have recently emerged has unintentionally created the constant need to catch up. This has resulted in the all-pervasive anxiety of not being able to do enough, not becoming smart enough and not becoming rich enough.
To stave off this looming mental state, we bury ourselves with various distractions. Meaningless work, relationships and a whole lot of possessions. We divert our attention to many things at once thinking we can numb out the emptiness, but to no avail.
Perhaps it would be useful for us to remember that our greatest consolation in life is that we can set the terms of our own success. It’s personal and customized by no other person than us.
Choose Your Adventure
If life success could be based on what we want it to be then it’s fitting that we pattern it to things that we value. If so, life success lies in the meaningful work we assign ourselves into. And since we get to structure it, we would be able to figure out the steps we need to accomplish.
The problem is we don’t even allot time to ruminate on the things that hold meaning to us. We need to aspire for something to get us going. The size of the dream and its specifics don’t matter, as long as we feel it could be worth living for in our brief stint in life. It also doesn’t matter if it takes a long time to achieve, time will pass anyway, so we just have to work on it.
The moment we decide on the path to take, we have already done ourselves a huge favor by choosing to participate in life.
Life Does Not Discriminate
It could be both a source of reassurance and despair to realize that life as we know it doesn’t give a damn about what we decide on. It doesn’t discriminate between good and bad, success and failure. Regardless of our faith, race or whatever division we have thought of, we all end up just the same.
Truth is, life doesn’t need meaning to validate its existence. It just happens.
Whether we believe that we have the faculty to succeed or not, we’re definitely right since we act out our belief.
We’re the ones giving it meaning. The minimum we could do is to dedicate ourselves to a life we choose.
Ultimately, it’s on us.
