Sacrifice.
I wish it weren’t so, but the world we live in is costly. There’s a cost to getting out of bed in the morning, to dieting, to stress management. There’s a cost in relationships, family affairs, and even within oneself. These costs, ideally lead us to places where they come out as a net positive versus negative. In the pursuit of exploring what it is that makes us individuals, you might have to sacrifice costs that may provide short term gains, in the hope that the long term gains are far better.
The hardest sacrifices are the big ones. The ones that you know deep down are for the best, but in the moment hurt the most. It’s hard to predict and often feels like a part of you is dying every time these decisions arise. We can look upon the natural order of life and death to understand why it feels so costly, yet prophetically beautiful. With death comes rebirth, with rebirth comes fresh perspective.
The pursuit of mastering oneself, is to disassociate these sacrifices from expectations. To trust, truly trust, that everything happens for a reason and at the perfect time. The more often you’re able to let go of expectations, the more you’re able to grow. In my opinion the pursuit of happiness is to be able to experience what it is to be. Meaning you as the individual are constantly in pursuit of curating a world in which you can feel the most alive. The moments that make your costly decisions easy, because you know as the individual you’re going to be just fine.
This is why we sacrifice so much for the things we love. It’s the reason we go through hell, it’s the reason we feel emotion, it’s the reason we get to experience what it is to be an individual.
Thanks for reading.
With love,
Kai
Weekly Poem:
The feather is balanced against the heart
The life is measured by sacrifices
The death is matched by harsh truths
And the rebirth is the dichotomy between what once was and what could be
