“Things and Beings”

Lwazi Piti
Nov 7 · 2 min read

Understanding the importance of financial and emotional stability in your early 20’s

The word millennial conjures many thoughts, one of the two that really hit home are thoughts of impatience and entitlement. I am firmly from the generation of big dreamers and overnight success stories amongst other real but fictitious realities for the average man.

One of my favourite shows Survivor, introduced me/us to overnight success stories and our channels of communication present opportunities to catapult the everyday person to an influential and commercially viable stature — this leaves many feeling inadequate, the beauty is that anyone with real drive will look for a way to ultimately reach success, whatever that might mean to the individual.

Success to me is characterised as consistent argumentation of one’s ability nearing his/her true potential, I believe in the being and the being’s capacity is infinite. “Hold the vision, trust the process,” a simple saying but hard philosophy to finesse, partially because the “hold” bit requires patience, discipline and commitment, I choose to use the word commitment because it implies being held to a goal rather than dedication which can imply commitment without action.

The difference between an artist and professional is that one waits for inspiration to hit in order to create the other gets hit by inspiration during creation, it’s important to start, hold and execute — whether you feel inspired or not. Its discipline and true reflection of craftsmanship.

Stability is tied to comfort and consistency, comfort in the literal sense and also the practical survival and security sense which comes as a result of the fruits of your labor and it is what the professional and artist ought to do, which is to create and contribute to the world.

To commoditise this phenomenon, we see creative productions monetized, this introduces the accumulation element of objects/things and positioning all of which are connected to financial stability, this theory works exceptionally well until it is mistaken for the foundation of stabilizing one’s life.

Millennials are very conscious of living balanced purposeful lives way more than previous generations which fuels their drive to reach financial stability in order to position themselves favourably to do purpose driven work but what cost is it coming at?

Lwazi Piti
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