Most people don’t have what they want.

Most people are not satisfied with their lives.

Predominately, most people are not happy with what they are.

The question is – are people suffering?

 

I think many people are suffering. Anything can be the cause of someone’s suffering. We are all so self-important, so pride and so determined to be something, to do something… all this determination breeds endless strife, endless conflict, endless suffering.

With that said… most people strike me as simply… dull and numb.

 

We come into this world and it’s rough and it’s dirty but the real nightmare only begins when we learn how much is EXPECTED from us… we were born perfect, but we will never be perfect again – we have to be this and that and it is different from what we are.

In the face of this insurmountable challenge, we sometimes take on it, sometimes reject it, but usually… just brush if off. You have to be good, you have to be pure… you have to be rich, you have to be BEAUTIFUL… you have to be wise, you have to be RESPECTABLE… you see that you are not necessarily that, but you want it, you crave it… you try getting it, or you shun it and deny it, or else… you simply ignore it. You pretend you are happy with what you are, despite your cravings, your dissatisfaction.

Escaping from the expectations saves you from suffering. Some people are chasing and they are suffering, you see they are struggling and yet they are failing, failing to meet the unreachable criteria…

You, like most people, just ignore your inadequacy. You just go on about your life, trying NOT to think about all that you could have been, all that could be…

 

Indeed, there’s the men who will try to X.

Then, there’s the men who denies the possibility of getting X.

But, then, there you are, the men who ignores it… despite feeling inadequate – but you too ignore that feeling.

Struggling to get something you want, and failing, breeds the suffering.

Ignoring what you want, however, makes you dull and NUMB.

The DULL and NUMB withdraws from life, EVADES IT, just to save himself from the pain, the pain of NOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH, and the pain of BEING UNABLE TO BECOME GOOD ENOUGH…

 

…there does not have to be pain, however.

There does not have to be the goal, there does not have to be you, that is trying to become something.

You don’t have to be anything. But you CAN.

And perhaps there is a way to go about life effortlessly, without creating the compulsion, without creating the strife, the pain… perhaps, one could simply be inspired… and then, ACT. Then, LIVE.

Don’t be ambitious nor respectable. You don’t have to be ‘something’.

But do not be dull. Do not numb yourself. Live!