Will I ever be free of mine?
It is all about scarcity. Scarcity of money. Scarcity of time. Scarcity of skill. Scarcity of opportunity, confidence, love. Whatever I value, I will never have enough of it. Which is likely, part of the human condition which keeps us striving, trying, evolving and ultimately, failing.
Failure is inevitable.
We are often told to "try and try again, until we succeed", but the reality is, that success is never guaranteed, but failure after success is. Every time we win, we are a step closer to a loss.
Every All Time High, is followed by a dip.
Next month, it will be two years since the ATH on Bitcoin.
Is that a long time?
It is an interesting thing to consider if compared against other events. For instance, in the same amount of time, my daughter has gone from daycare, to preschool, to first grade. Yet, as her parent, that time has flown by and when she looks back on it a decade from now, she will only remember glimpses of it. Maybe a teachers name or a friend who didn't want to play with her one day. But, she won't remember each tooth she has lost, she won't remember the times her parents looked after her when she was ill, she won't remember all the hugs and kisses goodnight.
All these important things that are milestones in her life and ours, forgotten.
The time just keeps running and there is never enough of it. Every bit that drips away is a moment less, a step closer to the end of time - the end of an individual lifetime.
There have been very few times in my life where I have felt financially secure. But, there have been times in my life where I have spent what I have like water, uncaring about what the future holds. Rather than being acts of hedonism, they were more likely acts of nihilism.
It is all meaningless.
Rich and poor, we all die the same. Which is true, but how do we live?
Some will have you believe that money doesn't matter, as it can't by happiness. Yet, if you could buy happiness, what would that look like for you? They say that being grateful and helping others brings life satisfaction. Can't a wealthy person be grateful for what they have and use it to help others? Wouldn't using resources like that be "buying happiness"?
But, even without that, people tend to forget that there is satisfaction and purpose to be found in the process of obtaining wealth, and it can be more than just seeing the numbers go up. How we live our life is more important than what we have, but assuming that someone building wealth is wasting their time and potential, is folly. At least anecdotally from my own experiences with wealthy people, they tend to do a lot to help others live a better existence too.
A person living in poverty can help others also, but the reach and impact are likely far shorter and lower, as there are less resources available. The effects can be profound on those they interact with, and it can still bring joy. But, they aren't mutually exclusive, you can do both. It is a lie that wealth corrupts, as it is "just a tool" - it is we the people who are corruptible.
Money is an innocent.
It is ignorant to who earns it, who holds it, or what it is spent on. It doesn't care if it is buying a kilo of food, or a kilo of cocaine. It has no opinion on if it is donated to charity, or used to buy weapons of mass destruction.
Money doesn't judge.
We judge.
We judge everything, including whether we have too much or too little of something. Too little money, too much fat. Too sad, too happy, too pretty, too ugly, too light, too dark, too late, too early, too fast, too slow... life is a very long list of judgements and it has to be, because there is no perfect. Every time we compromise, we are making a judgement. Even in the acceptance, we have to first understand that it is not our ideal.
My scarcity mindset born in poverty, is a judgement.
When someone says they "don't judge" - that is a judgement too. And one I would say is not based in reality. A fabrication of the mind trying to jig the numbers, because they don't want to be something, or don't want to be something else. Why not? because they are judging.
It is who we are and how we are.
Maybe an abundance mindset is better for our personal wellbeing, where we always feel like we have enough. However, is it good for our society, or progress, our evolution? If we are fine with who we are, does it make us insensitive to the needs of the environment and less likely to make the changes we need to make to survive? Are content people the ones that invent clean energy, or cure cancer?
Perhaps the nihilistic are those who are able to accept everything as it is, because ultimately, that stagnation will lead to complete failure, without any peaks - unwilling to change, unable to create, just a slide down into oblivion.
A scarcity mindset sees that there *isn't a cure for cancer. That there isn't clean energy. That there isn't enough peace or love in the world. A judgmental mind sees that there is too much violence, too much hate, too much crime, too much suffering. And once the judgements are made, the gaps recognized, there is room for a create mind to try and develop solutions. Even though there is no perfect answer, even though every success will be followed by failure - there is the opportunity to try.
And those who take it, will find meaning.
Whether they are good enough, or not.
We are all lacking something.
Taraz
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