Keep Moving

I don't understand how the world works really. I mean, some things don't just add up. We all grow up almost the same way, with the same set of training, although with variations, and the same set of goals, that's about where it ends. You put in all the effort to see a thing work, you do everything and beyond just to achieve a certain goal and somehow, it doesn't work, you're still unnoticed. While someone else gets all of the stuff you desire and more without having to work for it. Such is the world we live in. The imbalance is sickening. Forgive my rant though, as that's not my article for the day, or is it not?🤣.

I've been thinking about it for some days now. It's quite unfair for a world created by a Just Impartial God. Is it those who struggle that in spite of everything and themselves, nothing works, or is that something that has to do with the natural order or the institutional order? It even gets worse when you're the one doing all the work, but somehow because of a structure in place, someone else gets to reap all the reward and all the glory for your work, you don't even get to share in it. It's frustrating.

It can even get suicidal if you're one whose friends and equals at some point in life have gone far ahead and seem to have left you behind. Of course, this can sometimes not be a problem, but you have to not compare yourself with others or measure your success by other people's standards or success. You have to be someone with a certain understanding, which is the main focus of my writing today.

Not quite long ago, I wrote about the Chinese bamboo tree and how we all have different paths and different timelines for our success. The right understanding and mentality to fully grasp the whole bamboo story is what I'm going to dwell on here.

In this quest to succeed, to make something of yourself and your life, you need to understand that even though it's a marathon, not a race, it's still a one-man marathon. You are only competing against one person and that person is no other but yourself. You are your competition, your rival, your enemy. Life will always be life. It will always seem rigged and impartial, like it's out to get you, to make you fail always. So, the real question is, how are you going to handle that, deal with it?? Are you going to keep comparing yourself with all of them "successful" folks and friends and feel sorry for yourself? That's up to you to decide.

If you were to ask me though, I'll tell you that the best way to give the middle finger back to life as it is, is to compete with yourself and yourself alone. Accept that we aren't all the same after all, our timetables aren't the same after all. Understand that the only way to measure true success is to compare yourself to yourself, compare who you are today to who you were yesterday. Always compete with yourself, and try to be better at what you do every day. No matter how small, let there be improvements every day. Learn more, train more, read more, practice more, seek more, and let there always be more today than there was yesterday.

This way, you don't get to feel like an inferior human being or a failure, and at the same time, you're getting better w for when your time to shine will come. It's a one-stone to kill two-bird solution. This also goes the other way. Do not get so comfy in the current position of life you are today, just because you're far ahead of the curve. You're not in competition with the curve but yourself. It will always be you versus you.

Conclusion

Life can suck sometimes and I understand that, darn I live it too. But that doesn't mean it's the end of it will always be so. Far from it. You just have to understand this simple principle and compete against yourself alone. Develop yourself every day and one day that big breakthrough you need will come. But you don't want it to catch you unprepared, you don't want to let it meet a you that has given up on it. Keep striving, get better every day. Like Martin Luther King once said, "if you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving". Never stop moving.

Thank you for reading this article. I hope you find something beneficial in it.