Use Force. For Good.
I want to talk about Force, the result of concentrated willpower, mental strength, and voluntary movement all bound in one. Force can have positive or negative connotation depending upon the context it is used (although it seems to me we live in a day and age where it’s almost uncultured to not question something and not cast a cynic eye on it, but that’s a story for another day). Force can break, hurt, damage, destruct but force can also empower, improve, motivate and create.
We all have that friend who asks us to not force ourselves out of comfort zone, or to not force ourselves into carrying too many responsibilities. These friends are important. You need the force (self-referential, oh yeah) of their opinions to remind you about how life is also to be lived and not just a mission to be achieved and held up as a shining award when the body disintegrates. They are the ones who remind you, it is okay. In our daily life though, it’s the force of self and action which makes us a better person or a better worker or just better, period. There is actually *not* a very thin line between forcing yourself for good and forcing yourself off of a cliff. The warning bells toll loud enough for one to listen to and heed in time. And it’s at that time that those aforementioned friends of ours add to the rubble as sonorous alarms of well-being and drag us back from the precipice of chaos and destruction (assuming obviously that they indeed are your good friends who care for you). Why I point this out is because I want to underline that you don’t need to be afraid of hard-work or of forcing yourself into it, you’ll have plenty of time to jump ship if things get too intense.
Hard work is like Konstantin Levin from Anna Karenina, it is like the tortoise of human traits running against acumen, brilliance, intelligence, strength. But in fact, hard work is all of that, hard work leads to brilliance, hard work is strength, hard work cultivates sharp eye. Hard work is like Neville Longbottom, it does puberty right. Hard work is a realist, with force being it’s logic.
Force is a valuable asset that we all have in our arsenal, it’s just that most of us just have the worst luck in investing it. We invest it in places with low stability and high immediate returns, which we as people like because of the rush of dopamine, but in the long term forget. Force yourself into doing hard work, force yourself into becoming a better person, force yourself for that last mile, force yourself for those 10 minutes of exercise everyday, and most of all force yourself to step back when you know it’s too much, force yourself to accept when things are beyond your control, force yourself to be the person you want to be. They say you become what you pretend to be. I urge you to force yourself to pretend even if in the smallest way possible. Use your vices to your aide. If you are vain, use the projection of your image on others as a motivator, if you are lazy, use the motivation to be efficient. This is not an essay to preach, but one to portray one particular outlook of life. I will update it when I have matured enough to know more. Till then, adios!
May the Force be with you ;)
