Do Something

I need to do something, become something.

All I have to do is make constant progress towards the direction that I wish to live. It doesn’t matter where, but all that matters is there. Without direction, you drift along aimlessly. I have an aim, or so I think. But I’m surrounded by distractions. Why is that? Well, of course we know why. But why can we not prevent and circumvent them? Is it a simple conclusion of not trying enough? Or maybe it is not trying smart enough. Instead of piling on the fuel of more and more effort, maybe the effort needs to be applied differently. Instead of trying harder, let us try smarter.

Why am I distracted? What am I running for and hoping to feel? To achieve? Laziness? What is the meaning of laziness? Why are we lazy? We don’t want to do the task at hand? We are not entertained by it enough? We prefer a quick fix because it requires no energy of us? No expectation? Is it that we expect too much of ourselves that it makes the hurdle much larger, and a large hurdle requires much more energy from us?

By operation of the pursuit of least effort, the larger hurdle steers us away to a state of nothingness. The large hurdle is unattractive compared to doing nothing or something else—compared to the numerous other activities that require no effort at all but are immensely rewarding. Manipulated to be rewarding by selecting our ancient reward systems. No effort, but great addictive reward. How can anything compete with that?

But it must. Because we must be good. Good and great. And our habits, our actions, our thoughts, our decisions make us into who we are. Which is why we must say goodbye to the improper habits we all share. They make us into a lazy, mindless slob. But they require constant effort to resist; so make it harder to achieve and easier to resist. Focus. Grow. You need to, or you will never achieve what you want to achieve. You will never become who you want to be. And at the end of the day, you will regret it if you do not. It is up to you: to try and never stop.

Nonetheless, you will still never become who you wish to be. You’ll become someone near, maybe. You will become what life wants of you. The only thing you can do is direct yourself toward the better version of them all. Will you become a poor life or a great life? Regardless of the outcome, it is all up to you and the work you put in: the work you apply yourself with. Apply yourself. You can accomplish anything with a little application. All it takes is desire, want, heart, soul, chase, hunger, practice, effort, and belief. Do it, do it, and do it; do not waste your time and get distracted by things that serve you no purpose. They are all escape mechanisms. We do not want to escape. We want to carve this life into a heaven of our own.

We must win.
We will win.