One Day at a Time

What if after all the hard work and dedication, everything ends up being for nothing? Like absolutely nothing?

You know life can be utterly unfair to us and we sometimes are left with no option but to endure all of it.
Growing up and coming across different circumstances in life, I think we are all classified into different categories on Earth.
We have the always lucky peeps, the ones who always have it easy and don’t need to lift a finger for anything. Then there’s the mid category that consists of people who get lucky and unlucky and they can’t even predict which one happens next. Lastly, the unlucky people. They always have it hard no matter how much they try.

I think most of us fall into the mid category. Sometimes, life can be very good, and sometimes, everything just goes south for a while, but in no time, things become better, and the cycle continues. The problem with being in the mid category is that even when everything feels like it’s going well, anything could still happen, and having that at the back of your mind eliminates even the feel-good feeling that normally comes with the lucky phase.

It makes you doubt the essence of life. Like what’s this all for? The hard work, all the planning, strategic moves, dedication, and hustle for something that could be short-lived by a natural occurrence or a biased government policy? The ability not to predict life’s next mysteries makes living feel like being part of a game, where you either succeed or fail. The “what-ifs” of life make jumping back on your feet after failing more difficult.

What is the purpose of life if in the end, we all die? Why hustle? This will always be a lifetime troubling question, one of those questions that’s always on the fringe of the minds of everyone even the strongest of us all. But to me, I always tell myself to live one day at a time.

Like a speaker said in a meeting I had attended recently, “Why play music when you know it will end?” There’s no sole meaning or purpose to life, Life is what we create of it and its meaning is the meaning we as individuals give to it even though we know that we are going to die one day and leave everything behind.

It’s okay if you don’t have it all figured out, it’s okay if you don’t know where you’d be in the next 2-5 years, a lot of us don’t and that’s fine. Don’t beat yourself up for not having a clear-cut goal like others.

While you are still figuring life out, please remember that whatever you are doing currently is preparing you for what you’ll become later in life. You probably can’t see it now, but trust me you’d be glad for all the twists and turns you encountered in your journey years from now.
Instead of feeling discouraged, trust the process.

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