Stop Searching And Start Living

We are so used to searching for something. Searching for a better life, a better spouse a better home, and so on. We enjoy this search so much we forget to live. We are so ingrained in it that we don’t know anything else. And when we wake up from this, we are old and don’t have any energy to ‘’live’’ anymore.

We forget what is important and get so bamboozled by everybody else, that we don’t see an out. We think it should be like this. But it shouldn’t! We don’t live by moral values anymore. And if we don’t move in accordance with others. We feel left out or falling behind.

We hear this all the time from everyone on the internet and in our lives. You should move ahead in your career and in your life. And have as much as you can. Because it can never be enough. And that, is how we destroy the planet. In our noble pursuit of happiness.

We destroy. We overconsume. And we overreach.

Even our clean energy is wreaking havoc on the environment. Mines for lithium and other minerals needed for batteries. Take advantage of poor people. And don’t care about them, if they live or die, as long as they make their quotas, everything is good.

And all of this is because we feel we need to evolve more, have more, and be more.

But we don’t. We need to slow down. Because if we don’t… The very thing we are trying to achieve will feel miserable and unpleasant when we do get to it. Why?

Because we forget to live in the process. I see lawyers working day and night. Uber drivers, having two jobs, and so on. There is no living. We have fallen from grace. And that is why when you ask people, 90% of them would agree they don’t like their life.

I am not saying you should not do it. That you should give up wanting a better life. But what I am saying is…

You might want to slow down and smell the roses. Make the trip, you always wanted to take but always put on hold because of this or that. Go play with your kids. Have meaningful conversations. And just stop from time to time.

In lockdown when people were forced to stop. Most of them found out that they didn’t have any hobbies or real interests outside of work. And didn’t know what to do with themselves. And that is why we had such a big surge of depression in people. They couldn’t handle being with themselves!

The point I am trying to make is…

We need to ‘’live‘’ our life and not always be so busy, it just passes us by.