Someone asked me the normal question “How are
you? How did your day go?”
Like so many
other people, I answered fine.
This brought another question to me: “What makes your
day fine?”
Everyday we find out we are still on this present
planet called earth, we rush through each day trying to settle ourselves in
different aspects: family, work, education etc.
The question is does it give you peace or does it only
put food on your table or are you doing it to please those around you?
In every human being, there’s something deep within
that’s always unsatisfied and man being human will try to silence that by doing
something or pouring everything into something.
It could be creating something new like an invention,
getting married, changing your spouse or boyfriend to someone ‘hotter’, getting
a job, building a career or fame, doing all to stay financially stable,
satisfying your spouse, protecting your kids in any possible way, getting more
degrees, blah, blah, blah.
The list goes on.
I’ve come to realise that this particular thing that
makes you unsatisfied would continue to drive you to do so many things until
you find what it is that’s making you unsatisfied.
If you think I’m lying, just picture yourself on your
death bed now (I’m not saying you are dying now because in Nigeria, some people
may think I’m wishing them death). Ask yourself this question: "If I’m about to die, do I feel
excited because there’s nothing more or I’m still wishing for other things I
want?"
At the end it boils down to this: am I funfilled or I’m fulfilled?
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Doesn't funfilled and fulfilled work hand in hand? i mean if i do something that gives me pleasure and is fun it should lead to your fulfilment. if i love my work as an IT person, i'll do the work in such a way that I'm happy at the end of the day and not the death bed.
ReplyDeleteNot all fun filled leads to fulfilled. There was this movie I saw last year. Kill the messenger, a man asked Renner if he would choose his work over his family by publishing a story. He did but his life and family never remained the same and I think this happens in the life of every human. We decide what we want, we shape our destiny and then accept the consequence that comes with it.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't get what she was saying @Phillip, l think what she was trying to say was that at the end of it all did the work of your hands makes you funfilled or fulfilled?
ReplyDeleteThere is God o!
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