The past few weeks have been some of the most intense weeks in my life and it’s finally taken a flu to slow me down. I’m not sure if this is a basic truth, a sad reality or an ironic statement…
You know, I’ve worked hard in the past, but work has never dominated my life until now. I feel exhausted all the time and balance is something that is completely lacking in my life. At first I blamed myself, I was the one who had chosen this job, this home and this life. Then, I blamed my location, with it’s confusing culture, difficult life and completely new rules for a game I thought I had begun to master. But now, I am no longer sure what it is.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s part of human nature to always feel somehow dissatisfied, as if there’s something better out there, something worth aiming for that we haven’t yet discovered. Something that, if we just work hard enough, we’ll eventually get and it will make us happy.
So how do we stop searching? How do we learn to be satisfied with what we have? How do we know if we’ve made the right choices and if there even are any right choices to make?
When do we pause and realize that we’re happy right where we are?
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Ahhh. The ultimate question.
I have found (through experience) that the whole concept of the grass is greener on the other side, is shit.
There is always going to be someone with more, and someone with less.
The sooner that we realize the importasnce of appreciating where we are, who we are with, and what the view is…the better.
Not to take away our goals, of course. It’s always nice to have aspirations…but to let the dissappointment of sometimes not attaining said goals ruin your life, that just won’t do.
Good food for thought post.
Love it.