What Are You Working Toward?

Nearly everyone works...

But what are you working toward?

Some people work backbreakingly hard...

At nothing.

Doing work they hate...

Or avoiding doing any work at all.

Being with people they despise...

Or spending all their time alone.

Feeling like everything that is going on in their lives...

Is meaningless.

On the other end of the spectrum...

There are people who are working backbreakingly hard...

At something...

Often that they say is really important...

But at what cost?

They spend all their time stressed out...

Working at what they claim is important...

But missing out on everything else that life has to offer...

Getting sicker and sicker...

Sometimes with physical, chronic illnesses and diseases...

Other times, through the decline of their mental health....

And that thing that they claim is so important...

They begin to realize it is far less important than they originally believed...

Yet...

They cannot seem to do anything else besides that thing...

Trapped inside a prison of their own making...

Working toward an end goal...

That they no longer really care about inside.

What are you working toward?

The reality that most people end up facing in today's world...

Is that they are not really working toward anything...

At least nothing important.

They are a cog in an uncaring machine...

They are an imposter hiding behind a mask, terrified of being discovered...

They are alone amidst a horde of others...

Walking but not living...

Feeling empty and hollow inside...

Living the same type of day over and over again...

A miserable floundering in the middle of the ocean...

Where terrible wave after terrible wave comes crashing down upon you...

Pulling you under into the current...

Forcing you to feel the pain of drowning and fear...

Only to make it back to the surface just in time...

For another wave to drag you back under.

We are working...

But toward what?

Do we even care about the future we are creating?

For others...

Or even for ourselves?

We have lost so much faith in reality...

That we turn to anything else to make us forget about it...

Even if for a moment.

We watch "reality" TV where terrible humans are thrown into ridiculous situations to make us feel better about our lives...

We live vicariously through celebrities and influencers who are so desperate for approval that they only stop short of selling their souls for attention...

And some may even do that...

We pick fights with people so we can virtue signal that we are good people...

While doing nothing to actually improve the world around us...

We get lost in the lives of fake characters who live in pedicured worlds...

Or seek out twisted visions of horrific humans and situations...

For terror or vices...

And we do all of this...

For what?

98% of people...

Will end up on their deathbed...

Regretting the culmination of their lives.

Is this really what we are working toward?

A life of regret?

A life that we define as having been useless?

Despite all of the difficulty that we went through for the entirety of our lives...

Is that really how we are going to let it end?

Is that what all of the pain and hardship is going to add up to in the end?

Will that be our final sentence?

Perhaps it will be...

For most who read this.

Statistically, 98 people out of 100 who read these words...

Will fail to understand them.

They will disappear from their memory until it is far too late to do anything.

But...

Perhaps you are 1 of the 2...

Who sees this warning and takes it to heart...

To question what they are truly doing in their lives...

And consider it against the many options that are presented as supposedly valuable...

Yet, upon closer inspection...

Are found wanting.

Perhaps you will be the one...

Who truly asks...

What am I working toward?

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