Which pain is worse?

Living your dreams or your fears?

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The picture above you is a picture of my arm, and the mark you see embedded there is from a band that I wear every time I go to work. An elderly lady gave it to me last week, we were having a conversation about people who feel they have

I said to her I know what my purpose is in life and I am actively pursuing it. She responded well that’s better than most people who are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. And that’s what I see where I live people who are working jobs they don’t like. Smoking everytime they go on lunch break, drinking whenever they get off work. Slowly killing themselves, not living their purpose; some don’t even know what their value is to the world because they never took the time to try and experiment with different activities or jobs. And it’s always accompanied with this sigh that I often hear when I’m at work. It’s a sigh that says ”i wish I was anywhere but here, please kill me now”. A lot of my coworkers are nihilistic and sarcastically wish death upon themselves. See this is what happens when you are not living what’s inside you.

So I thought to myself how can I avoid this trap? And it then it ”snapped” into place, I ’m gonna wear the band around my arm and push it down slightly so that it’s a bit tight on me. After a few hours, it will start to hurt slightly it’s not unbearable pain more like an irritant. Then once my shift is over I take the band off and mark will be right there as you saw in the cover picture. I like the little pain that I feel throughout the day because it serves as a reminder to not give up on my dreams. I mean there are so many people out here not even trying and actively killing themselves. What’s a little self-inflicted pain compared to that? It reminds me of the number one regret most people have before they die. It’s not ”I wish I spent more time with my family” or ”I wish I hadn’t worked so hard”. The number one regret among the dying is ”I wish I has the courage to follow my dreams instead of living a life others expected of me” but how many people actually have the courage to do that?

This brings me to my final point which is what is worse? The pain of following your purpose and chasing something that you know in your heart you value? Even if that means putting a little pain on yourself to remind you that you only have one life to live? Or knowing what your value is and deliberately not running after it with everything you’ve got. Or even worse not even knowing what skills, talents, and abilities you could bring to this world and slowly kill yourself with drudgery, sex, drugs, and alcohol thinking you can’t do any better. Having a defeatist attitude and thinking that people of great stature had some kind of god given talent or ability that you simply do not possess? No, my friends, it is more than that most of the time. Only people with enough courage willing to go through pain will ever have the pleasure of experiencing their greatest dreams.