The World Opens

The world will open:

perhaps our most cherished belief is that we’re capable of such great change in the destiny of our lives. We loves to think that we’re in charge of certain outcomes, and that with just a little more effort, some direction and determination, and maybe just a bit of luck — that the world will open with success and endless opportunities as our reward. Yet it seems that for many of us this dream life is forever slightly from our reach, we’re never quiet there, our perfect lives elude us no matter how hard we work. Which of course leads us to either work harder, or conclude the world is rigged against us and we never stood a chance. A few fortunate ones do seem to reach the apex of their dreams, achieving everything they imagined and sometimes much more. It does pay to work hard and be lucky.

at least for some.

none of this is really true though, it’s mostly a story we’re taught to believe from very early on, instilled in us as children as the work ethics of success, and that the worst of life is to be viewed a failure. In this way the system truly is rigged against us, our innocence and innate creativity are lessened in a trade of effort and belief of working harder than the others, applying ourselves more and to always do better than our last achievement. It’s always more and it’s never enough, and this is learned through generations, carried…