Living: At What Cost?

I read a post about a man who found out he had an illness, but he was fortunate to detect it early. He didn't just need to make lifestyle changes, he had to completely change 80% of what he used to be, and this meant quitting his job and rearranging his life entirely.

Long story short, the man quit his job, undertook some risky and expensive treatment options and after about 2 years, he was completely free of the ailments and he had no traces, even though it was deemed impossible to achieve. Of course, he ended up broke, spent his life savings, and dedicated his life to doing things that might save his life and not what he truly wanted.

In life, money is always the first motivation because we need it to truly live.

Sometimes we push ourselves to crazy limits and break our endurance levels, especially because chasing money is not a race. It's a marathon and most times we have to keep giving: health, time, commitment, and sacrifice, or else we might only be able to afford to feed and pay rent which makes us bypassers without impact in life.

A lot of people do not want to be bypassers, they want to build houses, and mansions, ride expensive cars, break the barrier of poverty and all. This means they'll need to keep giving the things they're organically and inorganically endowed with. At the end of the day, we're often very surprised that some of the prices we pay aren't actually worth it.

There's nothing that can replace life, money indeed makes living essential and enjoyable, but one of the lowest points in life is being in that place where you need to start giving all that Money you've now made to procure good health again.

There are people in life who will never attain this low point, even after risking everything. This is the kind of natural luck that some people are bestowed with. However, life cannot be fair to everyone and this is why the essence of reality is weird and hardly makes any sense. However, people seek what they don't have, or give what they have to get what they truly want.

No one keeps what they have intact while getting the other things they also want. We're designed in such a way that we'll always keep "wanting", this is because we're not naturally self-sufficient, and this is why we inadvertently incur unfavorable life circumstances while seeking for the things we want in life. We're created to always want, and even when we're psychologically satiated, we're once in again slutted back into the rat race, because we will always want more the more established we become.

The state of our mind and body declines gradually the more we compete, and sometimes we're blinded by the "survival mindset" that we tend to give everything. Life is chronic, its natural state can be fleeting, this is why it's difficult for people to come to terms with how old they are. They feel they're too young to get sick or be poor, forgetting that sometimes we don't truly know what we're giving, because what we want is what we mostly focus on.

At the end of the day, we have our justification: we have to feed and we need to groom a family, continue the bloodline, and keep them happy.

This also proves that human nature is sacrificial, except that sometimes there are people who selfishly put themselves first at the detriment of the next person. There's no wrong or right when it comes to paying the price of living, it's a marathon and no one has all the answers.

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