How long are we going to keep chasing?
Because it genuinely does not end. You get the thing you wanted to buy, or you hit the goal you set, and within hours you are already looking at the next one. Not days. Hours. That is how we are built, I know. But it is never fulfilling. The happiness you get from a new thing evaporates faster than water at 100 degrees.
I look at my parents' life sometimes and I think, okay, you keep working. And then what?
They never left the country. They never travelled anywhere they would have loved to see. You keep earning, year after year, and for what? To live? Fine. But what kind of life is that? Where is the action in it? Where are the new people you were supposed to meet?
And I am watching the same thing start with my friends right now.
A few of them just graduated and they are about to start working with the government. Every time I bring up travelling, I get the same answer. "I do not have money right now. Let me find a job first, then we will go."
One of them said something that stuck with me though. He told me it is only going to get worse once the job starts, so at least right now we can actually go.
And he is completely right. Once the job starts, what do you get, one month a year? And by then you are looking at money differently anyway. Now you want the car. Then the house. Then the wedding. It never ends, it just gets more expensive.
When I was a kid I used to dream about having my own studio room and the newest, most powerful PC.
I have both now. Alhamdulillah, genuinely.
But you stop feeling it. A few months in and it is just a desk and a computer, and your head is already somewhere else, on the next thing.
The only thing I have found that actually fills that space is giving.
When I give something to someone, that is when I feel it properly. And that feeling does not fade the way the other one does. It is the only one that has not let me down yet.
You do not even need much to do it. If you have nothing to give, there is still some small thing you can do today that someone will thank you for.
And look, I am saying all of this knowing I should be the first one to apply it. So if I disappear and you do not hear from me for three or four months, you will know I finally listened to myself.
So here is my question for you, and I want you to answer it in your head before you close this.
What is one thing you could help someone with today? Even something small.
Two quick things.
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Osama (OLS)
P.S. — Every time I catch myself wanting something new, I picture myself already having it and I ask, so what? What actually changes? It is a life changing question.
