He still died

He who dies with the most toys, still dies.

The great leveller. Death.

You hear about all of these people who die doing what they love and wonder, was it worth it?

I have many questions if people and many more of myself but these days I find that it is easier and easier to justify the avoidance of discovering what we truly love to do and instead set much less lofty milestones for success.

I think this happens a lot on Steem where people want to do what they love and expect to get paid for it. Perhaps what you love is not the kind of thing that people want to pay for, perhaps it is but your skill of delivery or ability to engage your audience is just not good enough.

Someone may love to paint but this doesn't mean that anyone else on earth cares for the subject matter or, connects with techniques or implementation used. Should one be paid for effort even if there is no demand for what is supplied?

We are filled with conflicts and I believe one of these is the expectation that effort in deserves reward. Perhaps nothing we do deserves reward, no matter how valuable it could be bit we are all at the mercy of those who offer rewards. Should we pander to the reward or do what we love regardless?

This seems like the discussion of first world problems but it is not, if anything it is for those who are in the worst economic circumstances imaginable as what is the way out of those circumstances? Is it only finding ways to make ends meet by working in a system that is stacked to ensure that the chance of breaking out of that system is approaching zero?

Tell me, for all the people who have earned a paycheck, how many have been able to convert that value into more than it was worth at the time? Very few I'd say, yet profits keep climbing for the companies and banks while we keep buying consumables with a decreasing half-life instead of investing it into something that has a growing value model.

Most people who buy a house these days will fail to make a sale profit once inflation, repairs and rates are factored in. Cars are a money pit. So, what have we bought that actually preserves value or even better, grows in value? List the things in the comments section that you hold.

For most, it is a life of consumption and debt increase while what is real gets gobbled up by those who trade the valueless for it. We are trained to work for money and buy consumables while they covert their profits into assets. It is pretty obvious where it leads isn't it? Haves and have-nots. And, they can keep printing more of what we want to trade us for the assets we hold.

What has value to you in this life? Is it a difficult question - shouldn't it be so blatantly obvious to you that the answer is immediate, not even a pause of thought? You know what is happening on the news, the latest show, the sports but, you don't know what actually holds value in your life? Avoidance.

That bee in the picture died doing what it loved, without likely having known it. It served its purpose based on instinct and completed a life fully. We are not bees, we have to parse instinct through many filters and we have the ability to question the program and choose how we approach life yet, how many do? How examined is life when all we do is at the whims of others, all our attention and intention directed by the wills of others.

You think you are free to choose don't you? While you complain about not being able to do what you love because it doesn't come with a paycheck attached to buy more consumables while they but assets. You wonder how you don't have enough while their wealth keeps growing.

Every decision we make is s purchase. What we buy makes a difference. If only to us.

We all die. Do we all live?

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
_{(posted from phone)}

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