If I could change it, I would have already done so.
If only this were better. If only our lives were better. If there was something that would take a difficult life and make it more palatable, then why doesn't the whole law of attraction cause that to happen?
You better be sitting down, because it's not going to go well.
There is no amount of effort you can put into something that will cause it to go away. The dirt that you keep sweeping off the floor, it keeps coming back. That job where the work load just never ends, well, it just won't.
That's not the nature of the universe. Yes, you are going to feel buried by all of it.
Then something else happens, maybe you get in a car accident. Maybe a coworker had a mishap and you have to carry their load too. Or financially, you are near bankruptcy.
It doesn't seem to get any better. Does it?
Get this straight. You have chosen to take on this role, and you are supposed to go through it. If this doesn't make sense, maybe you need to reread my previous posts, or even better yet, read my book.
It's not because we deserve to have the life we want, but that life has certain requirements on it, that are designed to get you to the place you are now. You have to know that this is all on you. You chose this.
If we assume that you didn't choose it, then what kind of sense does any of this make? Why are we even bothering to try to rise above these challenges, when it is obvious that they are pulling us deeper and deeper into more misery and woe. Do we succumb to these challenges and allow misery to be our lives?
Is the purpose of life to be miserable?
What will it take to get you out of this? Is there something I can do to help with that? You know I can't answer that. I have problems of my own.
I don't suppose someone who has literally no problems in their life would want to step forward and help. No, we are left to ourselves and whatever resources we have to get through the daily grind of this mess.
It's as if we literally run out of time.
We spend a large portion of our days at work (8) and sleep (another 8), and that's if we don't take a lunch break or factor in commute times (in chicago we could say it takes about an hour one direction). Now if you eat 3 meals a day, let's add another hour there for each of those.
That means in a given work day you spend about 21 hours out of a 24 hour day, while leaving 3 hours for just yourself. I haven't even got to the part about personal grooming, meal prep, or even getting dressed. These things take up time as well.
But some of us work longer hours. How can this be what you wanted out of life!
So you try to beat the traffic like I try by getting up at a very early hour. You allocate what time you have to get around and get to work, then you have to plan to go to sleep early just so you can wake up and get an extra hour out of it. But you didn't get to sleep in time. Or you couldn't sleep because it is too early and you're not tired.
Oh, but you are going to be tired for the next day. Then you pump your body with as much caffeine as possible, just to make it through the day only to find that sleep won't be coming.
Then you end up in the doctor's office, tired as could be. Sore from all of the work you have been doing, and what does the doctor say? You should exercise more.
Yes, taking more time away from what limited time you have. Now you either do that, or let the remainder of the day pummel you down even more.
This isn't a life worth living. It is a total farce of what life is supposed to be. But in order to make any change to this, you need money. Money that keeps getting eaten up by all the things that allow you to do your work. Oh, but you need to take time and look at your financial situation. More time is gone and you have less and less money the more you try to figure it out.
However, let us look at the opposite. Given all the hours you could possibly have, and if you had the money to get whatever you want, and you do that, what is left that you would ever want?
Is that a truly meaningful existence? Yes, you get things. Things that take up all the rest of the time you have left. But after a thing has lost its shine or newness, it gets pushed aside or placed somewhere where hopefully there was room for it. So you need a bigger house to store it all? Well, that means it will take more time to clean. Even in your attempt to make meaning out of your life and get everything you want, you still run out of the thing that matters most. Time. Even if you were given all the time you would ever want, if it's about things, then it will eat up all of that time.
Time is the equalizer that everyone has to deal with. You get the same amount, from the richest to the poorest, and the most important to the least important. How we spend that time, is the problem. Where do we spend the most little time we have on what is most important?
You were never meant to live life alone. It was the message in Genesis, and it's still the message today. However, because of our limited left over availability of time, we have lost a lot of our lives for which we have to work with. Then to top it off, we alienate those around us, as we can't resolve these issues and still have time for anything else?
What are we doing to ourselves in this madness? What is the most important thing in our lives? Sure you could spend that time with God in the bible, but what about your family? Are the people in your life worth spending time with?
Now, what can we do? By that I mean the people around you. What can we do to make your life better.
We can wait as long as we have to. What are you waiting for?
You better be sitting down, because it's not going to go well.
There is no amount of effort you can put into something that will cause it to go away. The dirt that you keep sweeping off the floor, it keeps coming back. That job where the work load just never ends, well, it just won't.
That's not the nature of the universe. Yes, you are going to feel buried by all of it.
Then something else happens, maybe you get in a car accident. Maybe a coworker had a mishap and you have to carry their load too. Or financially, you are near bankruptcy.
It doesn't seem to get any better. Does it?
Get this straight. You have chosen to take on this role, and you are supposed to go through it. If this doesn't make sense, maybe you need to reread my previous posts, or even better yet, read my book.
It's not because we deserve to have the life we want, but that life has certain requirements on it, that are designed to get you to the place you are now. You have to know that this is all on you. You chose this.
If we assume that you didn't choose it, then what kind of sense does any of this make? Why are we even bothering to try to rise above these challenges, when it is obvious that they are pulling us deeper and deeper into more misery and woe. Do we succumb to these challenges and allow misery to be our lives?
Is the purpose of life to be miserable?
What will it take to get you out of this? Is there something I can do to help with that? You know I can't answer that. I have problems of my own.
I don't suppose someone who has literally no problems in their life would want to step forward and help. No, we are left to ourselves and whatever resources we have to get through the daily grind of this mess.
It's as if we literally run out of time.
We spend a large portion of our days at work (8) and sleep (another 8), and that's if we don't take a lunch break or factor in commute times (in chicago we could say it takes about an hour one direction). Now if you eat 3 meals a day, let's add another hour there for each of those.
That means in a given work day you spend about 21 hours out of a 24 hour day, while leaving 3 hours for just yourself. I haven't even got to the part about personal grooming, meal prep, or even getting dressed. These things take up time as well.
But some of us work longer hours. How can this be what you wanted out of life!
So you try to beat the traffic like I try by getting up at a very early hour. You allocate what time you have to get around and get to work, then you have to plan to go to sleep early just so you can wake up and get an extra hour out of it. But you didn't get to sleep in time. Or you couldn't sleep because it is too early and you're not tired.
Oh, but you are going to be tired for the next day. Then you pump your body with as much caffeine as possible, just to make it through the day only to find that sleep won't be coming.
Then you end up in the doctor's office, tired as could be. Sore from all of the work you have been doing, and what does the doctor say? You should exercise more.
Yes, taking more time away from what limited time you have. Now you either do that, or let the remainder of the day pummel you down even more.
This isn't a life worth living. It is a total farce of what life is supposed to be. But in order to make any change to this, you need money. Money that keeps getting eaten up by all the things that allow you to do your work. Oh, but you need to take time and look at your financial situation. More time is gone and you have less and less money the more you try to figure it out.
However, let us look at the opposite. Given all the hours you could possibly have, and if you had the money to get whatever you want, and you do that, what is left that you would ever want?
Is that a truly meaningful existence? Yes, you get things. Things that take up all the rest of the time you have left. But after a thing has lost its shine or newness, it gets pushed aside or placed somewhere where hopefully there was room for it. So you need a bigger house to store it all? Well, that means it will take more time to clean. Even in your attempt to make meaning out of your life and get everything you want, you still run out of the thing that matters most. Time. Even if you were given all the time you would ever want, if it's about things, then it will eat up all of that time.
Time is the equalizer that everyone has to deal with. You get the same amount, from the richest to the poorest, and the most important to the least important. How we spend that time, is the problem. Where do we spend the most little time we have on what is most important?
You were never meant to live life alone. It was the message in Genesis, and it's still the message today. However, because of our limited left over availability of time, we have lost a lot of our lives for which we have to work with. Then to top it off, we alienate those around us, as we can't resolve these issues and still have time for anything else?
What are we doing to ourselves in this madness? What is the most important thing in our lives? Sure you could spend that time with God in the bible, but what about your family? Are the people in your life worth spending time with?
Now, what can we do? By that I mean the people around you. What can we do to make your life better.
We can wait as long as we have to. What are you waiting for?
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