It is an interesting idea, when is enough enough? Especially in the modern world, when there is more of a 'race' to get the new thing that just doesn't seem to satisfy. It locks people into the cycle of working without purpose, only to realise later that they have paid in time.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
Hello! When is it? That is a good question. When can we put a pause to this chase and focus on ourselves, on love, on family? When?
Here I believe that having a moment of stopping and reevaluating your life is what can change things. We often don't do this, because we always think we have more time. An illusion. We only have today, now, this very minute when I am writing this to you. Chasing money for years, thinking that your fixed schedule of acquiring things will be obeyed by the Grand Universe is wrong. How many people died alone and rich, still hoping that next year they will stop and focus on love? How many people died poor thinking tomorrow they will start to do something to get rich?
We always chase the future, ignore the present and linger on the past. Of course that in this way we are like a hamster on a wheel. We keep on running, we don't know where, why, for how long. This is the reality of the modern world. The fast fast era, when we prefer expediency over quality. A text over a call. A call over a meeting. A smile over a hug.
Funny thing... For me it is so clear we will all walk away from here empty handed and naked, just the way we were born, that's the way we're going to die. Only for those who chase more than fortune, material stuff, glory... For those the Universe will carry along their legacy :loving memories created with a family, a good education given to the kids which will last for generations, a bunch of awesome memories. For when that time when one will close their eyes, they could whisper to themselves : I have loved and I was loved. This is the greatest victory of them all.
Sorry for writing such a long reply, I easily get carried away when I feel so passionate about a subject.
Thanks for reading me, I appreciate!
I definitely agree with you here... it is a weird training that we have mostly had. That we end up working our lives away mostly in jobs that we don't like or have little meaning and interacting with people we don't really like, in pursuit of some numbers in a bank account, to have the ability do the things that we actually want to do and spend the time with the people that we love? It would be better to skip the second part!
Running to stay still... that is the crux of it.
I think the same, time spent with the loved ones should be a priority. And it is priceless. We chase the wrong things due to some misconceptions society portrayed as being right. But we always have a choice