We are always eager to achieve new conquests and advance in the steps of life because that’s how progress is made, that’s how the world continually modernizes and redefines itself.
Similarly, we refine ourselves, oxygenate our ideas, become more fulfilled human beings, and consequently, happier — and the truth is, the world is in need of happy people.
Since childhood, we are taught that we have to fight for what we want because nothing comes easy, nothing falls from the sky; in other words, we must adopt an active stance towards life.
At the same time, as we accumulate experiences, we realize that certain achievements seem to have been destined for us, as if life generously predestined what would be ours.
In reality, both the extremely competitive attitude, in the sense of achieving what one wants at any cost, and the excessively utopian attitude of believing that our destiny is already predetermined by greater forces and what will be, will be, are harmful.
Blindly chasing what we want and waiting idly for the universe to be generous to us will ultimately bring us sadness, disillusionment, and frustration, one way or another.
In the rush to achieve high positions, social status, material possessions, media popularity, placing all of that as the sole priority in life, we exceed the healthy dimensions of desirable determination, often leading us to unethical behavior.
Looking only upwards diverts our attention from everything we already have in our lives, to the point of neglecting the love of our lives, family, true friends — and then they’re gone.
On the other hand, adopting a passive and conformist attitude towards life, clinging only to hopes and expectations that things will happen on their own, as if we had an irrevocable destiny unfolding before us, will cause us to miss opportunities and waste all that we could have and be.
We must desire and act for our dreams to come true, or we will remain in the world of dreams, even with our eyes wide open.
If there is a love reserved for us, we have to run towards it. If there is a perfect job waiting for us, we have to develop our inner potential.
If happiness wants us, we have to want it with the same intensity, in the same measure.
It is up to us to be willing to pursue everything that completes us, defines us, or our truths will be suffocated under the weight of passivity, conformity, and the empty comfort of what could have been but lacked the courage to become.
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