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but i totally agree with the conclusion of this piece, "Don’t just hope that things will work themselves out, understand that you can make goals and as long as you actively pursue them it’s not foolish or crazy to think that you can really accomplish something."
Nothing is forever; nothing is impossible; and anything can be changed.
But, is it true that we spent our school years surviving, and helping others survive?
I didn't quite feel that way. I put pressure on myself to know what I wanted to do, when, in reality, what-I-do-in-the-world is always going to be a work in progress.
Like any living thing, your career is always changing.
I love love love what I do for a living now - after my own hero's journey of surviving somehow as a lawyer in NYC for years prior. There's always time to make a change.
Love that you made up a statistic for the purposes of your article. I do that (and say I am doing so). Besides, what do we think statistics are - real?? No no no.
Great sentiments. Thanks.
Thank -you- for reading. I always appreciate lucid and insightful comments.
No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very p*ssed off
~ Tyler Durden
The problem as I see is that people have become too self centric.
IMHO What they do not understand is that if their ONLY goal is to become rich, they will never achieve it.
I tell them don't seek money, seek solutions to people's problems. But very few seem to have the commitment to live with a sense of awareness and gratitude.
Brilliantly worded post.
From an entrepreneurial perspective, while it is critical that you have a business model that generates real income, it is also important not to get so hamstrung on that model that you forget that the only path to success is providing people with value.
Thank you for the comment!
I think a lot of people get trapped into that cycle and let their dreams slip away, but I like your point about it takes more than hope. It takes action. That is so true. Anything worth having, takes time and action, even if it's little steps every day. I think we all need to be reminded of that from time to time because it's important to carve out a little time each day to work on that goal/thing that makes us happy. Thanks for the reminder Steve!
Then there are the people who are trapped as you so eloquently put it, they believe that it's impossible to dig their way out of their responsibilities long enough to do much of anything.
I have always thought there was a middle ground here. You can't do everything but you can do -something-, and I think it's excruciatingly important to do -something- because if you don't you are just going from day to day.
Thanks for reading Miiko, definitely appreciate the comment and hope we run into each other soonish.
Too often I read posts that complain about those who live in a cycle of despair, but never offer anything constructive to help them. Thanks for offering words of advice to reverse that cycle.
Even when you are doing what you love, life will have its ups and downs. No life is all fun and games. But it is those who are able to look past the setbacks & see the opportunity to grow that will love life and all that comes with it.
Children typically like life a lot. Teenagers are a little wishy-washy on it, but for the most part they think it’s the tops. The problem starts somewhere around the mid-20s, when we get thrown out into the world to do “whatever we want to” and we realize that the majority of that time will be spent surviving and helping others to survive.
Kind of a bummer, especially when you spend the majority of your early days looking forward to the freedom of being an adult. This realization is enough to cripple most of us, and very few who survive it make it through unscarred.
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