Slipped by unnoticed
I started April by reading a somewhat horrifying tweet:
There’s a question I think is looming over the heads of people around me (and what I think started as a light salaryman’s joke), it roughly goes like this:
We work this hard every single day, what are we looking for exactly?
It sounds cliche and normal at first, but then it got me reflecting on my routine:
You wake up Monday morning, you take a shower, eat breakfast, go to work, eat lunch, have a meeting, go home. And boom, it’s Friday 5:54 PM and you’re heading out for the weekend.
You celebrate new years, write down some things you want to achieve, but then you go about your days. And boom, it’s December 28th.
It’s not that I want to have a Bezos-level money or anything. It feels just scary how time can slip away ‘that’ easily.
So, the phrase “shaping the life you desire” hits hard. You can have a thriving career and a mundane life. Or you can travel wherever you want in the world but still feel that void.
Guess being mindful is the only antidote to an empty heart or unawareness of how time goes by too fast.
But to me, the question remains, or even evolved to something more bewildering:
- What kind of life do I desire?
- How to “shape a life” to reach a “desirable” point?
- Can you even reach that point? Or is it a continuous journey?
Even in publishing this post, I kept trying to add more points until I reached a just-frickin-push-the-button kinda feeling.