Some days I get so pumped up like I’m in my best element and can achieve almost anything. So I do and do and do. You know, strike while the iron is hot.
Other days I slump and feel uninspired. I want to be lazy and just not care too much about what’s going on in the world.
Maybe it’s just me, but I wonder, do I really need to pursue things and work nonstop, or just do things I love, without the feeling of being obligated or even having to meet any deadline?
We fill our days with plenty of to-do lists that life becomes a project instead of an experience.
Society dictates who we should be. It defines what success looks like and we succumb to this definition. All along we know, that at the end of it all, what would matter is ours and our loved ones opinion of us, not the whole world. The world can go by without remembering how much we’ve made for ourselves, or how famous we’ve become but perhaps how we’ve made an impact to the lives of the people around us.
And yet, how do we accomplish such a thing?
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
Viktor Frankl
A freely chosen task. That’s what struck me the most.
Maybe it’s not the same for everyone. It doesn’t have to be. It can even change at any point in time. So I guess the question is, “What is it for you?”. “What is your freely chosen task?”. Right now I’m starting to think.
I don’t need to get too hung up with outputs and outcomes. This is my life, my time, and I can freely choose what to do with it.
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To Squander or To Make It Count.
More than time being our responsibility, it’s first and foremost an accountability. It’s a limited resource that reduces in number every second of the day until it finally runs out. Now what we do with it is indeed our call. It doesn’t have to feel like an obligation, rather, something cherished simply because we’re not gonna get any more of it.
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
Francis Chan
In the end, when somebody asks you, “How was your life?”. It’s either, “Well you know, It happened” or “Yeah, I lived it and t’was hell of a ride!”.
Supercharged or regular? I cannot care about your choice any more than I should care about mine. But tell you what. When those white hairs start to stick out , wrinkles and all, come by and see me. Let’s talk about it with a couple of beers. And maybe bring along some pizza!
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