Purposefulness, anyone?
Unfortunately, many are back-riders. Many are more likely to piggy-back than create their own ride. Many more out there would rather coast along, going with the flow, so to speak.
And that's the crux of our problem. At some point in our lives, we keep on trudging but with a deep hollowness that simply keeps you afloat and adrift as the high seas keep chafing you from the Indian Ocean to Madagascar to Maldives.
Take that innocent lad. He's grinning from ear to ear. Why? Because he's doing something with a purpose. And when his mini-wheel borrow starts to unload, what did he reap? It's that sense of achievement, that sense of fulfillment.
Shifting over the focus to our lives, surely at some point in our lives, we were kinda rudderless, purposeless. But that's fine. There are points in our lives where and when that's least surprising, especially during your youth. But, if you continue to be purpose-less long after your youth, that's a red flag that needs to be shot down or folded up. Why? Time is just too precious to lose. Wasted time is wasted life. And when those wastages seemed to have peppered your life's chapters, I am not brimming with optimism that your bagful of regrets will overflow. By that time, it's too late.
Unfortunately, we have been so drunk with technology. We got immersed with one too many shortcuts and hotkeys that all it takes to invoke a function is just hitting a key and when and where you err, you simply UNDO. Too bad, there is no such thing as an UNDO in life. You go and waste a decade in your life, that decade is gone forever. You drift further with another twenty years, then it's GAME OVER for you. And by the time you realize it, your Bio has been captured by the iPhone's TIMELAPSE function and there's just no UNDO.
