Another Day
As a rule most of us never really slow down and look at our daily routine. From the time we wipe the sleep from our eyes until we ease our tired bodies back into bed late at night it is almost as if the day has happened and we were just along for the ride.
Some days this is quite comforting. When days go by and nothing bad happens, nothing that pisses us off or causes us to deviate from our regular life, we feel quite at home. It becomes our little comfort zone.
For those of us blessed with drive and ambition it is neither comforting nor is it easy. Let me state here that I am not refering to myself when I talk of those with drive and ambition. I may have times when I feel ambitious and driven but they are few and far between. I have come to a conclusion, as one does when mulling these thoughts over, that there are 3 types of people.
1) People who just live their lives and get on with it.
2) People who are driven to succeed, make money, own property and have a safe 4th quarter of their life.
3) People who are so lost that they don’t know what day of the week it is.
Now. I must add that I feel that those who fall under number 3 are not losers, nor do they need psychiatric help. I am of the firm belief that these people are the ones who are even more driven than those people who fall into the number 2 category.
They are lost because they feel that life is more than what we are forced to conform to. By this I mean that as individuals they realise that they have so much to offer in terms of honest human experience that they wonder why they have to live in a world that leads us to believe that we must:
a) Go to school and get a good education
b) Start at the bottom in a good career and work our way up
c) Get married, have children and get a mortgage
However, this is simplistic and this is now changing at a rapid rate. In the time I have been alive there have been many changes that have reshaped the way people want to live.
Without making this blog entry drift off into political oblivion I will just add that the world is changing so fast and we are happy to roll with it in the direction we are shown. The problem with this is that we are losing ourselves and our humanity.
Even religious organizations are to blame. Religion and politics, the two subjects that we are not supposed to talk about at dinner parties but they alwasy come up anyway.
What we should be talking about at dinner parties is how the fuck we get our humanity back. We strive more and more for wealth and success. These can be achieved and add an element of perceived happiness to our lives but sure enough any problems we have and overcome are replaced with other problems. No matter how big or how small we will always have problems and worries. Some people just cope better with these, whether rich or poor.
I can only re-iterate that it is the easiest thing and the hardest thing in the world to be happy. Just choose it. When something bad happens to you, let it run off you like it does not matter. It sounds superficial but it is very easy and it works!
So when you wake up tomorrow and rub your eyes, just remember that it is another day and you will be happy no matter what.
And for fucks sake, try to add a little bit of humanity into your day…
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