Craft Your Own Identity
Everyone’s life is different and not everyone has the same challenges. There is a list of small everyday tasks that you do in order to keep your life going, and there are challenges that are out of your control and that you occasionally must deal with. Handling those activities successfully is definitely very important but does focusing only on them make you a successful person or the master of your life?
However, even though they are very important, little rewarding tasks are secondary. We can assume that a successful life is finding happiness and getting exactly what you want, and not just going through the day and completing whatever life throws at you.
Consequently, if you live so, your real wishes and desires remain only dreams. You remember them from time to time, you remind yourself of what you really want, with a bittersweet smile on your face, and you sadly think to yourself Someday I’ll…
And this is all yet quite optimistic, if your reality isn’t even worse — if the most time-consuming activity isn’t the job that you don’t love and in which you don’t see any meaning.
Living on autopilot isn’t any different than living as a slave. To be less harsh, we can also say that a life in which all our true desires are subordinated to absolutely everything that is outside of us, is an obedient life. But what for?
Let’s see what makes the difference between being in control and being out of control once you decide to change your direction. Obedience is still there, and resistance is still there. But this time they exist in a different form.
Obedience to oneself.
Resistance to the obstacles on the way you consciously choose for yourself.
Obey to yourself. Once you decide what you want, make your plan and obey to yourself. Be the servant and the master in one — that’s the core of ancient wisdom.
Govern yourself and you can govern the world.
Outer directed people have always been the most pitiful souls: they obey to others and resist to their own desires.
As Nietzsche said, Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome.
It is by overcoming obstacles and by winning that you become more powerful. Each ladder you step on makes you stronger. Putting effort into something is a gradual process, it is a conquest. You may feel happy by nature, and that is a real bliss, but you don’t become strong by default. Craft your own identity.
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