Three questions

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw -

Wise words and most would probably agree but how many people are actively doing it - creating themselves and their lives? I've got no idea of course, but I know I am because I discovered the benefits of working towards a goal and applying some effort to building something solid a long while ago...and I mean more solid than that dodgy looking construction made of licorice all-sorts in the shit photo I took.

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If you're human you've made mistakes throughout your life, and will again; but also if you're human you'll know that those mistakes don't define you - what you do after they happen does!

I see a lot of apathy around the place these days and much of it revolves around people's futures.

Consumerism is all about focusing people on the present, giving them the feeling they'll be missing out on something should they not "buy now" and that means people focus on the present, content with their latest purchase, figuring the future will take care of itself...but usually it won't.

I think it's easier and more comfortable for people to ignore the future for many reasons and fear that they are not ready for it is one of them, so because I'm curious I thought I'd ask three questions in the hope some of you might think about it and come up with some answers.

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What are you building?

Why are you building it?

How are you building it?

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I have always had a strategy for how I'd like my life to be; I think ahead and lean into my future on a short, medium and long term basis knowing it's going to happen whether I'm prepared or not.

It seems prudent, and also a really great way to ensure an agreeable, enjoyable and fulfilling present because a good present starts well before it actually happens. I've had, and have, goals and plans, been flexible when required, pivoted this way or that, and have striven towards them with focus and dedication...my future depended on it. And, there's no surprises that my presents and futures have reflected that effort, meaning they have been good.

Building

I see our lives as one continuous construction, something we build through time and the experiences we have, thoughts and attitudes too but it's a construction we get the benefit of enjoying along the way which is pretty great. It never finishes...well it does of course, when we die, but throughout the passage of our lives we build continuously and like all good constructions our lives need to have a design concept, that's our ideas and vision on what we'd like it to look like, and that vision simply won't come to pass without effort and most definitely won't happen in a single moment...which is why I think those three questions above are so important.

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If you're interested in commenting you can do that below and it'd be cool if you wanted to answer those three questions in a short comment.