How
many moments have you lost to apathy?
Everyone in the world has spent at least a little bit of time performing
tasks that they find boring or unfulfilling, it’s inevitable. The danger is how easy it is to let the
boredom swallow more and more of your time.
We live in a world blended from constant novelty and unrelenting
monotony, two ingredients that leave us forever hungry. It is a struggle to free ourselves from an
empty life, and it can only be done through introspection and self-understanding. Each of us must set ourselves a goal and
pursue it to the greatest expression of our spirit.
There
is a place for rest. We are not built
for total and constant passion, and we are allowed time to relax and to breathe. Times of abnegation, of mental rest, help to
replenish our spirit and grant perspective. However these moments must be a conscious
choice, and we must depend upon ourselves to wake up and resume the pursuit of
that which we love.
To
quote Nicholas Sparks, “The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones
who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand
in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's
nothing to make it last.” I hope that
you find lasting happiness.
-Peter Manning
