We Arrive With NOTHING, Leave With NOTHING!

 

Elon Musk.  Mark Zuckerberg.  Jeff Bezos.  Larry Ellison.  Larry Page.  Warren Buffett.  WHAT commonality do they share?  Quite a lot, honestly.  LIKE they are proven business moguls.  LIKE they seem NOT to sleep at all, lurking around for opportunities to continue expanding their business empires and 'war chest'.   BUT can someone guess WHAT is their very the first commonality they share?  You're spot on, dude.  As babies, they were born with literally NOTHING.  BTW, their commonalities DON'T end there because while WE ARRIVE WITH NOTHING, we'll LEAVE WITH NOTHING💚💛💜

Apple's founder, the well revered late Steve Jobs had very deep-seated words at death bed, realizing HOW meaningless all the troves of wealth a person can amass, accepting HOW it becomes a total exercise in futility WHEN at some point in life WHEN we will call it quits, you and me CAN'T 'bring over' anything and everything we did have in life.  So, let's NOT spend so much time on that because that's a given that's way beyond any doubt or worth to debate on💥💥💥

Allow me to tie-up our thread today to those WHO may be struggling these days.  As much as most of our struggles are all valid and legitimate, let us NOT loose sight of the fact that those challenges shall 'pass through' and before we know it, we may end up unsure HOW one challenge after another managed to slip pass us.  Fact of the matter is that our struggles do impact us, that's NOT debatable.  BUT sometimes the huge miss here is that we tend to inflate the challenges at hand, more often unconsciously.  True, WHEN we having NOTHING LEFT, it's more than just a bad day.  Surely, each of us have been through those 'down-down' times WHEN we were suffering so damn bad, leading us to contemplate giving up just so the pain stops.  Bills piling up.  OR no one is hiring you.  OR you just went through a bad breakup.  WHEN you seemed to have tried everything BUT NOTHING WORKS!@#$%?  Then, we felt crushed, overwhelmed and pushed to the cliff's edge!@#$%?

YES, maybe in our everyday life, a grape is just a grape until it is fermented into wine.  Just as an olive is just an olive until the oil is pressed out of it.  YES, it's inevitable either sometime in our past OR, knock on wood, one day in the future, WHEN we would feel we CAN'T live through things.  BUT alas, as this old one-liner goes, despite the gloominess of the horizons, sometimes there is light at the end of the tunnel [and it's NOT an onrushing train].  Seriously, much as no one size fits all, problems need to be understand with clarity and then listing down our options for both the 'QUICK FIX'  and the 'FINAL FIX' are a must-do way because these are inputs for us to reach an informed decision.  BTW, before we get mixed up, informed decisions DON'T guarantee things NOT to go awry😡😡😡

Our takeaway:  Much as challenges hit us left and right over and over again, one thing I learned here is developing and harnessing one's FORTITUDE.  True, FORTITUDE is easier said than done BUT embedding it deep within us will go a long way in lessening, if NOT altogether obliterating, all those humps and stumbling blocks.  WHAT matters most is that much as we ARRIVE WITH NOTHING and LEAVE WITH NOTHING, between our ETA and ETD, there's a high gaping hole that offers us tons and tons of opportunities for our own taking. It boils down upon us to leverage things while the sun remains dandy and shining because eventually, that NOTHINGNESS will still be as much us!!!