The Easy Life

Monday Motivation: The Easy Life

Look closely, you'll realise that the world herds towards the easy life. We love to feel good with little or no stress. We wish responsibility isn't in existence. We wish we would only wake up from a sweet sleep, eat already prepared delicacies, play and be entertained all day long, behave as we wish, exercise our pride and prejudices, indulge in all kinds of unrestricted baseness in the name of enjoyment, make others to serve us and to get all our cravings, get tired doing all that, fall asleep and wake up next day to do the same things and live like that till death stops us...

I call that the easy life. This is what pushes many. Majority of people who woke up this morning to step into the rat race have been told that such a life is possible and that they should go for it.
Majority of those who won't lift a finger today to add value to life are also being motivated by that vision. They don't feel they came into the world for the 'hard life', suffering and stress aren't for them they think and so they lay back into idleness and lack of any sense of adding value.

Nobody likes pain. Hardship and poverty have devastating effects on people's lives and on their psychology. They aren't what we should ever wish for ourselves, not even for our enemies. This is the justification for people ever running away from poverty even after they had become very rich though fear should never be a motivation.

Where then is the balance? The truth is that both the easy life and the hard one have their places in life. And each has its role in productivity towards fulfilling purpose.

The truth however, is that we aren't in life to work for the easy life while escaping the hard life. That will be a very base reason for living. Because no amount of 'easy living' can satisfy the soul and so we'll keep searching for it without end.
And running away from poverty and the hard life will never end even when one had gained the whole world. The fear of poverty keeps people running all their lives while being useless to fulfilling purpose.

But the duo have made billionaires across human generations. People, take advantage of other people's desires to live the easy life to make money. That's why entertainment industry probably makes more money than agriculture.
The fear of poverty and of the hard life has also made so much money for those who exploit it more than it had delivered those running away from poverty. The fear of poverty, like every other kind of fear makes one vulnerable to exploiters. What you fear the most creates the easiest loophole for those who would take advantage of you by scams.

We must understand therefore, that existence is for purpose and not for mere survival. The craving for survival is futility. Why should I ever be in existence if all I am here for is to struggle to survive? What will be the reason for my surviving if survival is all the reason for surviving? Why then was I made to exist?

I once asked people, what they will do if they suddenly have all the money they crave for, all the opportunities they desired, all the importance and fame, all the conveniences and comfort bestowed upon them? I asked what would they still pursue in life?
I remember someone had responded saying he will keep investing and working so that it won't diminish. I remember also that not many others deviated from that line of thinking.

But we have people who were at birth richer than what so many have been working for all their long lives. People who, if they decide never to lift a finger all their lives can do so and never be poor... Such people were given us as what we call the control specimen of an experiment. They tell us that the easy life or running away from poverty aren't  the essence of living, otherwise such people would have been useless to life.

Both the so called
'easy life' and the other side are opportunities we have to make life and eternity better for all as we prepare for life after the world, whichever one we have here now.

King Solomon was a control specimen in the adventure of life. He was granted everything he craved for, even including those he didn't pray for. Peace, women, wisdom, riches, favor, position, adventure, fame etc, were given him in abundance till he got tired of everything and they all became vanities to him.

My question to you is, what's driving you? Let nothing drive you into futility and vanity. Discover purpose and pursue it. You'll survive and thrive but they are not an end in themselves but a means to fulfilling a divine purpose here on the earth. If you have become rich and comfortable, remember it's for a purpose. If you are yet to get there, remember your purpose in life isn't just to get there, so don't forget to keep fulfilling your life's purposes as you seek to be comfortable... The two are quite compatible and if you have to choose one, choose to pursue and to fulfill the divine purpose.

We eat to live, we don't live to eat!

God's blessings and grace to you always.

Good morning. It's a great week!

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