Do We Ever Live?
I have put a lot of thought in this question for the past few weeks and I still can’t seem to find an answer to settle on.
You may be wondering why am asking this and could even think I am delusional or overthinking. That’s not entirely true. Let me explain:
If we picked 100 random people and asked them to estimate the percentage of their lives that they have been genuinely happy, chances are, more than 70% would not pick a positive number. These assumptions may be wrong but not far off the mark.
Today, if not always, our lives are structured to follow some boring social standards; Go to school, get a job, get a life partner, have kids, toil for most of your life providing for your family, retire from your job with some miserable pensions and die.
Sad, right? Unfortunately that’s how it is. Very few actually get to live their lives. Before you assume it is about money and riches, it’s not. Living has more to do with self satisfaction not just materially but with our desires and dreams which are sometimes unrealistic to many.
Sadhguru, the founder of Isha Foundation once said that in this life we are like those pop-ups on a computer. We barely last a minute before we’re gone. This might sound sad but don’t you think there is some truth in it?
We are born, live under pressure, expectations, the law, our individual desires, taxes😆, and mental torture from all aspects of life. We have celebrities with scripted lives as our role models. We go on to try emulate them and end up depressed.
Our relationships(family and rmantic), our marriages have no meaning anymore. I only accept you or give you respect if you have what I want. For most, when another person who has something better to offer appears, you’re left packing.
We have unrealistic standards from people who have nothing to offer. We have a society that fights for all the useless things, pushes ridiculous agenda but still expects us to live normally.
Generally, there is nothing positive anymore, nothing to live for. We are mostly fighting to survive until we give up the ghost.
Maybe I am extreme. I ovethink, some may even say I am negative, depressed(wouldn’t be the first😆)but this is the reality we need to accept and fix where and when we can.
I’ll ask again; DO WE EVER LIVE?