For as long as we can remember, the most important thing taught in life, after survival, has been to be successful. After decades of evolvement, the meaning of success has shifted, sure, but the focus remains. Success can be perceived as monetary benefits or striving to be happy – and the perception of happiness is not universal. Individual senses, experiences, and desires have an innate ability to direct you to an understanding of what happiness may mean for you, correct? The point is though, that success is what we all reach for in our actions and endeavors. Can we agree?
I think the masses, at least in the United States are accustomed to the theory of living to work. To live to love and NOT to love to live. It may sound seemingly cliché, but admittedly there is something to be acknowledged when we all think about living. We focus on attaining recognition for our skills, schooling, and bank account. Just recently, the world of honoring experiences became the focus. We can thank millennials for that fact. We can lift up our prayer hands to the younger generation geared towards wanting to live to experience and living to conquer what the world has to offer rather than focusing on what we have to conquer about life. Did that make sense in your mind?
In other terms – we have been in dire need of directing our every move towards gaining access to the dollar bills in our illusionary accounts (more on this later). We have been stretching our minds to earn educational degrees, and not leading ourselves to various degrees as we travel to and from the center of the equator. The equator in itself demonstrates the necessity of balance and relative to life; education and experience should be balanced as well, no, yes, maybe so?
I think of how much we have done ourselves a disservice in focusing on what may or may not have been functional for long-term success. I believe we need to love to live. To love living. To love to live to give and receive love. To experience is living and to love is an experience, so you tell me, why do we not focus on maintaining a sense of love in our lives? Why is that not a subject in elementary school?
Constantly, we are fighting to grasp love in tangible ways, but the reality is, experience provides you with the love you desire, and realistically, living with a priority of love provides you with the best destiny we all seek – LOVE!
