Times are changing. As humans, we struggle with life, worrying about how we can manage the next wave, the next setback, the next phase, and all. We struggle to that point in our lives when we just feel like giving up. We tell ourselves that it’s fine to just get it wrong this time and it’s fine to let our guard down. But for most of it, we quickly forget that we should take one step at a time. We just want to get to the top of the ladder without taking each step at a time. Life has always been moving so fast to us, and we always see the need to make sure we meet up. Because we feel like the moment we snooze, we lose.
For the Realtalk prompt for this week, we are asked to share our thoughts on Are We Rushing Life, or Is Life Rushing Us?
As easy as this question may seem, it is something that requires us to give a deeper thought to, because it is one question that I think we have to give our answers to. As it gives a basis to how we see and handle life. We are often pressured by what we see around us. We are concerned by the things we seem to be missing out on. We are happy about what we are doing right, the good people God has blessed us with and all, but there is always this need to always want to do better. Be better, which is good, but we fail to model the right people.
We start rushing life when we start thinking we are not doing enough or when we feel we are not enough. We rush life because we think someone else is having something that we always deserve to have. We start rushing life when things just don’t fall in our favor. We start asking God, “When?” We get to that place when we wish everything happens immediately, quickly, and faster. We hate patience or anything that suggests it. We see life as being unfair and frustrating. We rush life to give us our own good times and, if possible, never taking it back. We lose sight of those things that truly matter to us while chasing the things that least matter, all because we think we are lagging behind.
In such situations, we are the ones rushing life. We want it all done, and when that isn’t happening, we lose momentum to go forward. We question everything and anything. We hardly ever see the good in anything we or others do. We just want it to get to our turn. We feel deserving of it, and we just wonder why life doesn’t think the same as we do. And we keep trying our best to make life see that we deserve the things we work so hard for and just give it to us already.
On the other hand, life tends to rush us when we see life as those around us, our environment and the situations we find ourselves in. As humans, we have certain ages when some certain things are expected of us, and when that time comes, whether or not we are ready, life demands it from us, and we have to just accept the call. And that’s why, when we think of our age at some points in our lives, we tend to rush life, because we know that time will come when we have to answer the call of nature. Just like how we can’t deny ourselves sleep for as long as we want without some consequences. Nature must take its course, and we have little or nothing we can do about it.
So I’ll say, on one hand, we are rushing life and, on the other hand, life is rushing us. And the problem is the fact that we are mostly concerned about getting to the point when life rushes us, and we just live most of our lives trying to rush life so it never gets to that point when it rushes us. But in the course of us being in haste, we get so many things wrong, and some things are just never recoverable. Once we’ve lost them, it is as good as gone forever, and that is why we just have to learn to pay attention to details, quality over quantity.
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