A little and I'm back
Fresh air accompanying a fresh week. Ok, the week started yesterday. I know, for the purpose of the masses, it seems Monday has always been that D-day. Did you know, I never for a while knew the week began on Sunday? I never cared, everything seems to be happening from Monday. School! School!! School!!!, that was what flushed my brain to 'I don't care'. Even when reciting the Calender it was very fake to me. So I just prioritized Monday till I advanced.
That said, how is ya week going? You think I haven't noticed the 'ya', in that question. Trust me, it's one of the fun parts of being a free writer. If you have noticed, I have not written an article for the past four days now We go again! You didn't, I mean, I thought we were good friends, let's go beyond IP addresses. I had to take a little sabbatical if that English suits well. Sometimes you may over chase your dreams and it seems a nightmare or to make it more plain, we make a god out of it. It becomes very dangerous at this stage.
I mean, I aim to be financially free but not at the cost of my life. One will have to first live before he secondly enjoys the wealth. At some point one needs to balance his physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. If all your energy is focused on craving wealth you might be in long term dissatisfaction and worst of all, all the days of your life. Many of these guys with lots of money and smiley faces are actually not happy, it's just a made up appearance to cover up their inner burdens. Let me just pause to bring in @tengolotodo from here, it is one of those articles I will love him to go through.
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note here, I am not discouraging us from chasing dreams, yet we have to set a satisfaction boundary. Not everyone will become Elon Musk, not all will become Jack Ma and the rest yet you can live a worthwhile life if you know how to balance the odds. I had to try and see if I could do without some things that I entangle myself with. I have come to realize that there are pressures we mount ourselves that are not worth it. Wake up early, sleep late? Good, it is the general advice for someone who wants to make it.
If I am to add from here, there are some commas to this. Don't make a god out of this activity. If we want to be true to ourselves we will admit that all this commitment is out of envy of your neighbor. Oh! My neighbor just bought a new car and all of a sudden, you don't enjoy driving your old car anymore. You increase your grinding just to meet up with a new car. In the process, you reduce your sleeping time from 7 hrs to 5 hrs or 4 hrs daily. We cover it up with statements like, 'sleep is for lazy people'. Does he who made nature not know why He kept both hours at 12 each?.
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Oh! Here I go again trying to tell someone how to live his life. Maybe I am trying to draw someone to join in my laziness. Of course not, I have a lot of things to meet up daily yet my last experiment taught me a lot. I was wondering how this could be possible. The idea was to try and discover more about my inner self. In the process, I will have to reduce doing many things if I can't completely shut it down. What was the lesson learnt, there are so many gabbages we need to let go.
I have gotten the proof I wanted, first, that I can live without so many things. This is something I will really have to leverage on. As I go on in my daily hustle, there is more positive energy flowing within me, a new mentality that most of what I do is not a do or die affair. It broke even into my daily spending and I have come to realize that I am overspending on myself. You may not understand, I am not a money squanderer yet even in my calculated spending I have now found myself guilty of overspending.
To conclude, let me add, this is why we don't have extra hours for ourselves to focus on more important things. When we wake up, we are looking for where to get the next spending money. The pressure of a harsh economy sets in and you buy in for more sleepless nights. I have come to realize, it takes understanding to live. "Never follow the crowd and their habits, if the crowd knew much, the world would be a safe haven by now"---Dani-EL. freedom comes from having a separate mindset, refusing what pressurizes others to do same to you. You can either decide to live under nature or above it.
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