Focus on living, not on surviving

As humans, life is the most precious thing, and nothing can be more important than life, even if there is a need for many things to make our life better. Money is the most important thing that is needed for a good life. And to earn money, we need education and work. Money is needed for sure, but why do we need money? The answer is very simple, and it’s for living a happy and comfortable life. So, it’s ok to chase money, but we become so obsessed with it that we forget many times about the true purpose of chasing it.

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Naturally, for chasing money, we enter an endless circle, and we keep rotating in the circle again and again. Every day after waking up, we repeat the same or similar things as yesterday. We define it as discipline, which is partially true, as we are making continuous efforts towards our goal, and discipline can lead us closer to it. But it doesn’t mean everything we do is for discipline or has something to do with our goal. If there is a goal, it should not be endless. At some point, we will reach our destination, and chasing the dream should make us exhausted, as our spirit doesn’t allow it to happen.

It's unfortunate that every day repeating things makes us exhausted, but still, we keep doing things like we are possessed by a ghost. Actually, we act like human robots in such a situation. From time to time, we lose the spirit, and it turns out like we are just following orders to chase something that is unknown to us, and we don’t know the destination, and, in that way, we get trapped. Some people say that we are getting mature, which is a ridiculous statement. Is it called maturity to become restricted by the shackles that are called responsibility? I don’t think so.

First, we are not robots, and we have emotions. We need to do something to keep our souls alive. Staying in such a situation is similar to slow poisoning. Slow poisoning is not deadly, but it poisons little by little from time to time. It’s just a matter of time until such a situation starts to engulf us as well as our souls. That’s the reason why we stop chasing our real dreams, as well as why we can’t go further towards our dreams. It’s like we draw a full stop there and try to be satisfied with what we have, thinking that we reached our limit.

Naturally, we start focusing on how to survive better and find a balance. We want stability by the name of maturity, but in reality, we become afraid of losing, and we lose the energy to move forward. We actually forget that living and surviving are not the same thing. Most of us misunderstand surviving as living, which is not true. Surviving only focuses on our basic needs, and anyhow, we are living life as long as we are fulfilling our basic needs. On the other hand, living life means living with full spirits like a free bird. It’s something related to our mental state as well as our souls. Living means living a life how we want to live and enjoying the moments to the fullest.