Life, a losing battle?
You live life through expectations of success that are created, once succeeded have you truly won? Success is valuable because it creates acceptence. You won the false game, and entitled yourself with some college degree and people see you as successful. Doesn't that mean you simply lost, you played a game created by society. On the other hand, if you care nothing about success but you survive, and learn "truth." Ask questions and rationalize what reality truly is avoiding being a pawn in societies game. Doesn't that simply means you're playing your game of what you have percieved reality as. The thing is, each path never ends. Where is the finish line, what is the finish line..? Does the finish line exist or, do you keep playing the game you've percieved as reality. To fight and fight, to avoid losing, yet the goal is out of sight. Does this not mean we simply keep on fighting a losing battle?
What do you think true victory is?
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To me life is a stage of small victories, I wake in pain most days but if I manage to get to work that is a small victory it won't be a big deal to my boss but is a big deal to me, life to me is managing to ignore what others expect of me and defeating the problems thrown in my path. My brother in law is what society accepts as a successful man after spending years at university he earns £150'000 a year as a fully qualified solicitor but to earn this money he leaves the house at 5 in the morning and gets home at 9 at night. On the other hand I'm deemed by society to be unsuccessful, offered similar chances education wise but squandred those chances to party and have fun and now earn £15'000 a year working 7.30 till 5. I am happy with what I've got whilst he has admitted to me that he is jealous because I have more time to spend with my family than him, who is the richer man in this equation? Better yet the true victor. You gave a perfect example of what i mean. Live a life of money consumerism, or to live with your eyes closed ignoring the future. Eventually surviving and having time with a family etc. You can't get as many things, but you're with who you want to be. Yet he can get many things but he can't buy his time. Does victory really exist...? or can it simply not be acknowledge because we only have one life, and our own experiences. Victory exists but as in war, victories in life come with sacrifice, my brother in law sacrifices his time to provide a nice comfortable life for his family, I do the opposite. To be happy with our victories and to be happy we have to see the small victories in life as that and not keep dwelling on what could have been or what we should have done. |
