lördag 14 maj 2022

What's important is how our actions shape us...

...not how our actions shape our material lives. 


Honestly, I’m sick and tired of Law of Attraction teachers that tell people to just effortlessly attract abundance. It is true that life doesn’t have to feel like a struggle. But that is not because everything is easy and we don’t have to make an effort to get what we want. It is because when we truly do something that we feel is worthwhile, we discover that we have much more energy and are much more capable than we thought that we were. 


There may or may not be ways to be certain of the outcomes in our lives. I believe that if our wishes are in line with God’s wishes, they will come true. But this is out of our control. What is not out of our control is how our actions shape us. If I lay on the couch all day doing nothing, the problem is not that I am not productive. There are more than seven billion people in the world, so my actions ultimately matter very little to the world. The problem is what kind of person I turn into. In all likelihood, this person is a selfish, tired, depressed, slothful person. And if I constantly act selfishly, I will in all likelihood become shallow and live a life lacking deeper meaning. It doesn't have to be this way, but the chances of this increase dramatically.


Yes, with regard to one’s actions having little significance in the world, I know about the argument “what if everyone thought like that” and yada yada yada. But the thing is that none of this matters. Because if we take actions that shape us into people that we actually want to be, we will also take actions that are good for the world. This is the little secret to life. There is no conflict between our interests and the interests of others. We might think that there is. But when we look at what selfish actions do to us and our lives, instead of just the material gratifications that they offer, this illusion vanishes pretty rapidly.


This is primarily why actions are important. This is also something that we actually have control over. Which should come as a great relief - that which we actually can control with our actions is in fact what is most important to us.


And make no mistake about it. Every action that we take has an effect on our character.

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