Then why do we do so much boliao things?
Let's say our average lifespan is 85 years...
It seems like it's a very long time right?
I mean, imagine if we had only 1 day to live?
Or imagine if we had 1 month to live? Or 1 year?
How would we live our lives?
85 LONG YEARS!
We have so much time that we think it's ok to squander our lives.
The less we have, the less we squander. The more we have the more likely we will take it for granted that we have a lot of time... Until we really don't have a lot of time, then suddenly humans will "wake up" and feel that life is too short.
If we think that 85 years is SHORT... Then once again... why are we wasting our lives?
So what do I mean by wasting our lives?
Well it depends on person to person.
The first thing is simply, what do you/I want to do with our lives?
Maybe it's to be happy, maybe it's to have fun.
Why do people want to be rich? So they can buy things and hopefully, they will be happy or it will be fun.
Then the question next becomes, do I need to be rich to be happy or to have fun?
Do you know for a fact that being rich will give you happiness or will enable you to have fun? How rich do you need to be?
Or maybe someone may really want to live their lives for their God.
I'm not religious, but maybe someone else is.
Then... why not just do it? Why do they work in their day job and devote their lives to God only on weekends or their free time?
If their meaning in life is for their God, then even with less money, they will find purpose to serve their God.
Or maybe someone really likes to do social work, and that gives them purpose in life.
So just go and do it. Why continue a day job and do social work in their free time?
Or maybe someone really likes to play games, watch movies and Youtube videos like me?
Then... save, invest and spend less.
What I'm getting at is, well... Why are many of us wasting our time?
If we think 85 years is short, then we shouldn't waste it.
If we think 85 years is long, then by all means go ahead and waste it.
I think the underlying question we need to ask ourselves is...
Why are we living?
Each of us will have our own answer.
So for me, I want to be happy and enjoy my life.
Maybe someone might think that's selfish. Maybe for them, they want to better society.
Or maybe someone's reason for living is their religion.
Or maybe their children.
Or maybe someone wants to be rich and live in luxury.
Etc...
To each their own.
If so, then go and do it. You don't really need a lot of money to work on your reason for living.
If you think that you're someone who doesn't need a lot of luxury for your life, then maybe you should be spending more time understanding "why you are living?" instead of just working aimlessly.
I'd be really surprised if someone told me that their reason to live is their work.
I would be quite surprised and maybe I would feel quite sad for that person.
To me, I would think that work could be a means to an end, for money.
OR, it could be entertainment, like a hobby to pass sometime.
ie, it's like for many people they work and in their free time, they do their hobbies or "reason for living".
But I think it should be the other way around. People should be doing their "reason for living" and their work should be their hobby.
The thing is, for most of us (not all), work is a means to an end.
The problem is, most of us don't know what that end is.
For many parents, I think their purpose for living is their kids. And their sole reason to work is also for their kids.
That doesn't always mean money and working. You do not need a lot of money to raise a kid. BUT, a lot of parents think they HAVE TO, or feel pressured to "give their kids the best".
It's the same as that LV bag, or Gucci... Someone owns it, someone else feels pressured that they need to do the same or they feel inferior.
Same as for kids. Some people cannot do certain things for their kids. Life's like that. There's no need to feel any pressure to do it. But oh well... I digress.
The whole point about this post is well... 85 years isn't too long or too short. It depends on what you want to do with it. If you wanna play and enjoy, then find a way to do it, do whatever you want to do with it.
But also to remember that work is a means to that end. It shouldn't be THE end. Well... I don't think work should be the end.
Don't forget why you're alive. Different people will have different answers to this, and depending on your answer, to spend the 85 years wisely.
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