What Do You Want From This World?
Nobody cares about your suffering. Nobody cares about your success.
It’s all about destiny
This world never cares about your suffering. No matter how hard you've tried, the world never cares. Your tears never make this world empathetic. Even suicide? Yes, committing suicide doesn't mean the world will mourn your departure.
Conversely, your success doesn't mean the world loves you more. When your dreams come true, it doesn't mean the world cares more about you than others. All forms of failure or success are universal constants, a destiny that should indeed happen, regardless of what you have poured into it.
So what’s the point of hard work?
Hard work is a way to increase the chances of success. It is not an absolute formula. Abandoning hard work and learning is tantamount to letting yourself stagnate at your current level.
Hard work and learning are ways to improve yourself, not to show off to the world what you deserve.
Who cares about your hard work? No one! You care.
We are often too selfish. We feel that what we do is something that deserves and must be appreciated. Being selfish is what leads you to downfall. Showing off is a trait that often appears because we are still childish in understanding how the world works.
Hoping too much for what the world will give us only makes us stressed and gives up. Focus on ourselves! Self-improvement is our goal. By focusing on self-improvement, we will increase our value.
Self-improvement
We are all the same, we are all humans. We eat three times a day. However, our values are different. Like a piece of paper; some become books, some become money, some become playing cards (which have to be slapped or sometimes thrown), and so on.
Likewise, humans. Our values differ. It depends on how much portion of self-improvement we have in learning, reading, training, discipline, hard work, and the like. Only us, who can increase our value. Not others. Whether the world will appreciate us or not is beyond our control.
However, with self-improvement, we increase the chances of the world appreciating us, although sometimes not immediately.
I truly believe that what I have poured in will surely bear sweet fruits, but sometimes we are the ones who set or create appreciation according to our imagination. We feel we have done something, so the world must appreciate our efforts. As a result, when our imagination does not align with reality, we become furious and do not accept the world (fate).
Creating appreciation standards according to our own parameters.
“My hard work should be rewarded accordingly.”
Unfortunately, the "accordingly" we mean relies on parameters we create ourselves. It means we are still childish. Obeying our mother to stay quiet in public to get free ice cream from her. And that is childish. When we obey our mother solely for the ice cream, not because it is our duty as a child to obey parents.
