I often wonder why we as regular people are not inspired to do anything important on our own?
We have everything going for us. No physical lackings, no mental short-comings and every other need handed to us without so much as a struggle. And yet we do nothing really worthwhile with our lives and worst of all, we have the gall to complain that we do not having everything.
And then there are those who, through fate, have lost something very dear to them, be it a limb, a loved one or even eventually their lives, that truly shine through as human beings.
But why? Why must we HAVE to lose something to become worthwhile human beings?
I think we are, by default, extremely ungrateful in our existence.What we have is never ever really important to us until we have lost it.
And then one day we lose it...
Losing something dear to us, sparks within us two reactions of great extremes: selfishness and selflessness. It all depends how you wish to interpret your loss. A way to either victimise oneself or to look upon it as a means to strengthen not only your own soul, but the souls of others as well.
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What would qualify as important? I think many of us do indeed achieve things that are important to us - careers or families or even just living a good life.
As you've said "many of us do indeed achieve things that are important to US".
In my opinion it is incredibly important to look beyond the happiness we've created for ourselves and look at the World at large and see how we can spread our happiness to other people.
We have this tendency to live perpetually in the little world we've created for ourselves and only when we've suffered some form of loss we are awakened to the reality of the World at large.
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