Before starting this post, I just want to say that this is my view on human development and how to live life right, even if “instant gratification” doesn’t come. Also, don’t go against your true understanding of it all. That’s the lesson. With this, I start this article:
At some point in our lives we all need to wake up and see our lives as they are, not as we “really” want them to be. Real life and death are in our perception. Recently, I was facing a crisis of conscience. I’m wondering if I’m headed in the right direction, or if, in my past, I’ve gone the wrong way. Well, I dug into all of this and realized I was where I needed to be, and anything else was wrong. Sure, I could have finished high school and become a marine biologist, actor, politician, or so-called winner, rather than a self-made philosopher and actually majored in philosophy in college and minored in public speaking and debate. However, I sincerely believe and understand that if you have a dream that truly comes from your heart, you must follow it, even if it sometimes appears “crazy” or “stupid” to others. Real dreams are the only real path to greatness and nothing else. What comes from the root is the real gift of God. Even if it succeeds immediately, everything else will not count. face it.
So sometimes in life and existence we need to wake up and see the reality of our life.
When I graduated high school at 15, my dad died in mid-1991, and my mom asked me “Why do you want to major in philosophy in college?” circa 1992. All I could answer was that I wanted to write about it in depth, not just study it, but delve into it and improve the world in some way, even though at the time I didn’t know how that was going to happen.
Then I realized that no matter how hard it may seem at first, start this path because it means everything, a path that “has it all” and leads to nothing, meaningless. Before this sentence, many of you also understand the meaning of that sentence I said. But later even Christianity and Buddhism have similar sayings in their classics, such as “gain the whole world, but lose your soul”, “the truth is as hard as the eye of a needle” and so on.
True core winners, actually winners, are rare because of the factors I just mentioned. There are so many problematic “average” losers in this world because it’s “too hard” to win in the way I call it. What is easier? Go with the flow and be the loser, or really win? good question.
Still, this is my personal answer, I’d rather go the real way, nothing more. I’m going to do it right or nothing at this point. I know, that’s not compliant, but, if so. I’d rather do something that satisfies me, or not do it at all.
My name is Joshua Clayton and I’m a freelance writer based in Inglewood, CA. I also write under a few pseudonyms and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name and I write under that name most of the time now. I am a philosophical writer, objective thinker and honest doer. My day job also includes working at a senior center in Gardena, CA, but I’m primarily a writer.
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