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Life passes us by all too fast, a lot of us go through life certain of what the outcome is going to be. We are not abject or disparaged by such a thought however as it tends to be a subconscious set of thoughts. I suppose it could be said that we have a routine or a structure that we don’t think about, but quietly accept.
I believe life is best enjoyed when routine is broken up, or at least your life is not a codified existence, one without exciting actions or differentiations that make you feel more of a ‘person’. Constantly our senses are bludgeoned by an array of different images of the world, the world is not as wide as it used to be. If anything is causing depression within a person it is lack of communication, despite us being in the most connected state we’ve ever been in.
Individual personality can not shown in a proper way anymore it seems, we are taken down to a level where we are forced to communicate in dark rooms or empty places. We ‘meet’ all number of people…different personalities, albeit they are just more words on your computer screen.
Life is, and always should be a free and exciting experience for everyone. Alright, this is fairly optimistic and fairly blatantly ignorant of the fact that certain nations are stricken with war, poverty and disease…so in a way it’s a bit arrogant and rude of me to say that people should live life to the fullest when they don’t really have a chance.
But I suppose I am going to have to sound rather callous and ignore this fact – I’m going to have to say that for people who have the chance to live life in a world where life is easier than for some, they should capitalise on this and live life the way it was intended.
Maybe these are all projections of the grandiose life I imagine myself with, first and foremost I’m going to have to meet my short term goals; find a partner, raise my fitness and get in better shape, get a job, move out of home and get a reasonable job after university. However these goals are all attainable, these are what I view as ‘common goals’ ones with definite attachments to reality and realism in general.
Across the broad spectrum that is life, I’d like to say I’ve done more than just graduate…more than just sat in my room idling away the hours from time to time, more than just sat back and let life happen to me instead of me taking charge, taking hold of the reins and living a more interesting life.
What makes me crave some ‘grandiose’ life? I suppose within everyone, there is a constant ‘second’ level of thought in which they project their unrealistic thoughts or fantasies within. Myself, I always think of things as if we were inside a fishbowl, unable to escape – our lives are often lived out and we are ‘acceptably happy’ throughout the course of them.
However I want my life to be full of exciting new turns, I say this with passion…well almost, that is another thing I believe more people need – passion. Passion is the great motivator, it’s the force that compels people to become great at what they do, and surely all of the great things in life follow through with it.
Simplistic actions such as changing your outlook on life or changing your train of thought from one minute to the next can influence so many bigger events in your life to unfold. For example you begin to act more confidently, you take some chances, you lose some weight, you work on your appearance, you become passionate about a certain thing or even just walk through life with an added sense of self-assurance. These are all elements which in the bigger scheme of things attribute to a bigger sense of achievement in life.
If you are good looking and confident, you will lead a bigger social life – this is fairly indisputable. I am not saying your social life will include a lot of brilliant people, but it will include a lot of amazing people. I use the word amazing fairly liberally here – I mean by this that the people you meet will be more than ordinary, people who ride the top of the social wave, the people who have more breaks in life, the better job, the prettier partner the ‘easier’ way throughout the walk of life in my eyes.
Yet, studying hard and being resourceful are always going to play to the advantage of anyone, as long as you can capitulate to the ‘sad’ lifestyle as I call it. Nothing special here, but I believe money is the way through everything in life – money is also a great motivator, it is also the element that makes the world turn around and makes it fall apart.
With money you have a sense of pride, a sense of confidence deep within yourself that you have the means with which to further yourself or in the case of some…ruin yourself. I suppose it was fairly blasé of me to say that money is the way through everything in life. But it is true to an extent. If you were a university student in your 3rd year of study, you’ve most likely got your set career path or at least the career you’d like and you work towards it. Each day is the pressure of travel, of learning new things and of keeping busy and active throughout the day. I again use a world fairly liberally by ‘pressure’ I mean pressure as anything other than living an almost non-existence. You have a formed structure, a formed routine and you know fairly well what your plans are day-in and day-out. So getting back to my point – imagine you win the lottery at this instant…and it is a very good sum of money. I am saying enough of a sum of money to keep you on top for the rest of your life.
What the aforementioned hypothetical student does in this instant is what defines them as a person. What do they do? Do they continue studying? It suddenly seems as if their world and all its bounds have been removed. They have just realised everything they are striving towards is to find the result of the amount they will get paid at the end of each week, fortnight or month. Suddenly the whole world is a drawing pad, a blank canvas against the rest of the world. It as if someone had just opened a door in a small dark room in which they had been sitting for a long time, into an open world of light and fresh air.
Wouldn’t you feel fiercely invigorated and excited at the prospects of putting your dreams into motion? Money takes away barriers, the world of walls tumbles down around you and you can see clearly at last.
We go through life in auto-pilot most of the time; this is a saddening fact, one that I don’t really care to think about. This is a sad factor of life that we can change. Go through each day as if it was your first, and all its wonders are new to your eyes. Everyone and everything are natural to you, you don’t have fear in talking to anyone – you know the right things to say, you know where you should be and you know how you should act in any given situation. Big things will happen to the people with big ideas, but only if they act upon their thoughts. For the people with no ideas and confidence will win friends, but the people with the big ideas and the confidence to put them into action will win the world.
James Dean did say it right when he said “Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die today.” The hardest thing is putting this idea into motion…but I hope we can all do it, and soon…as life continues to pass us by all too fast.
