Hey, when I become old, I will live peacefully in the countryside where I can feel nature. I will be free from everything and my days will be relaxing.
At the bottom of a mountain, there is a bamboo forest. Near the bamboo forest, a few houses built from bamboo can be seen. Inside one of the houses, there is an old couple who are living peacefully.
We love to imagine and talk about relaxing days in our old age. When a young person thinks of leading such kind of lifestyle, he will most likely to be told, “You are still young. You have a bright future. You should work hard for it. Don’t waste your life.”
We can live our lives simply in the countryside enjoying nature days after days. But, if you are a young person who is in your twenties, you won’t be satisfied with such a simple way of living. It is because your blood is boiling to chase after your dreams and dreams are always something not within your current range. Those who don’t have dreams will be confused and finding out what they want to do with their lives.
We are moving forward days after days as time passes. At some points, we have the urge to improve ourselves. We work hard for our goals. We do not want to live our days not doing something and being unproductive. We want our actions to be useful to others even if it is just a little bit. We want to learn something new every day.
There is a mechanism called “The rise of individualism” in our genes. We move forward every day to reach the highest place. Our lives’ goals and dreams are somehow related to the highest place. Creatures which stand at the highest place are favored. Unfortunately, the highest places are only for a few and because of it, there are stories of frozen dreams and fallen dreams.
Working on something without much effort requires thinking. A person normally isn’t thinking (I don’t mean those with an active mind). Letting yourself work on something meets with great resistance from yourself. If your work is something new to you, the resistance will be worse. Normally, we don’t want to work(Well, it is true for me who is a lazy ass).
But, we work. We can’t bear to be left behind. We don’t like being looked down on. We try to fit into our society. We try to be at the top. We work to learn new things. By working, we boost our ego and pride. We work even if we don’t want to work (neglect shirkers).
A young person can choose a relaxing lifestyle without work or a working lifestyle without relaxing. But, the young person will not be satisfied with a complete relaxing or working lifestyle. The young person will choose both relaxing and working.
If you work on something you love even if it is super challenging, it sounds exciting for you, right? The young person should choose an exciting lifestyle.
March 19, 2020 11:11PM
A jobless girl in the countryside who doesn’t take any action for her dreams but loves to laze around wrote this article to motivate herself even knowing that nothing much will be changed.
