Hey guys!
I'm just going to get straight to the point by asking the simplest question you can ask a person.
So many people young and old have a tough time answering that question, but wouldn't you think that should be the first thing that we figure out? The purpose of our life. The reason why we're doing everything that we're doing. There's no right or wrong, everyone can have their own answers but to me the meaning if life is
I really believe that everything that we do throughout our lives is because we think its either make us happier or less unhappy than if we didn't do it. Even things we didn't wanna do, like study for a test all night. You're not gonna gain happiness from studying. Nobody likes studying unless some kind of a weird nerd.
You do it because you know it'll eventually lead you to happiness just like everything else that we do. Studying will help you pass the test and you'll be a lot happier if you pass rather than when you fail. Passing a test will lead to better grades. Better grades leads to better colleges. Better colleges increase your chances to secure a better job and makes more money, so you get a nicer car, a nicer house or eat at a fancy restaurants, whatever you wanna do later in life
Everyone does what they do because they think they're gonna make their overall life better than if they didn't do it. The reason why I bring these up and why I think its so important to understand the meaning of life is because life is gonna be more and more hectic when you go off on your own.
There's gonna be so many more things that you have to think about when you never think about as a kid. There's gonna be time when you get so overwhelmed by everything that you might get to the point that you'll consider of taking suicide as an option. Hah! I know I have. That's because life is like a box of chocolates. They can be sweet, they can be bitter and sometimes can get a little nutty oh and also the more you get into it, the fatter you get as well.
(hahaha)
These low points of your life is gonna happen at some point if you wanna grow as a person. Maybe not to the point of considering suicide but just know that if it does get to that point,
(hopefully not la kan) that, its not happening for no reason and there's can still be benefit from it. If you survive and figure your way out of that situation and that mind set, you have the mental strength to be able to deal anything in the future. You cant acquire that kind of strength without going extreme adversity. Its like a
Saiyan from
Dragonball. The more you beat up a Saiyan without killing him, the stronger he gets when he recovers.
I watch a lot of those all those successful individuals online because I had no idea what possible advice I can give to my students and I want to get an idea of what those famous people are talking about. A common theme that kept coming up that they were all giving advice on how to strive for greatness or how to reach your goals or how to become successful, like they are.
Its inspiring and true it is because they were telling you how they were like you when they were younger and they weren't anybody special and they do fail over and over and over before they found any success. I definitely agree with that message 100% and like I mentioned earlier, you gonna have low points. Failure is a part of life, whether its a job interview or becoming a parent, or starting a family. Whatever it is, you're going to fail. I completely agree with that.
A lot of those speeches were very inspiring and they are helpful to help you reach what our society defines as
"success" but before we figure out how to reach success in life. Shouldn't we at least try to figure out what success in life is? We spent so much time thinking about all these goals and dreams that we've had since were little kids and how we are gonna reach that goal. Sometimes we get too distracted that we forget why we're trying to strive for them in the first place. You can set and go after all the goals you want in life but its all leads back to the same thing, the meaning of life,
" HAPPINESS "
That should be your primary, number one goal and everything else should come after. I know this will sound obvious, cliche and easier-said-than-done at times, but I personally think it's very important to have that at the back of your mind and keep reminding yourself that way when you start to stray from it, you'll recognize it. You'll be surprised, how many people including myself focus so much on how to reach individual goals or what our society defines as "success" that we don't even realize that we're not happy anymore and most of the time, that unhappiness is caused by ourselves. Its fixable but we don't even recognize it.
We get so caught up, chasing after these goals and stress ourselves out so much to the point that we're miserable but yet we just suck it up and we just keep going because we think that once we finally reach these goals then all the stress and unhappiness is gonna go away. Now I can tell you from personal experiences, that's not how it works.
If you're not happy with your life on your journey to your end goal, you're most likely not gonna be happy even after you reach it. Its like playing a video game. You don't play video game that you hate just because you think that you will be happy once you finally beat it. Its almost the exact opposite of that. The best part of the game is the journey. The moment you beat it. The fun is over, but its exactly that. The moment of "happiness" and that feeling will fade once the end credits comes rolling by. Then you're bored its time for a new game.
My point is don't let society point of definition dictate your goals and dreams. I personally think that it doesn't matter if you never reach any your goals or accomplished any one of your dreams. If you enjoy your journey, don't waste your time playing the game that makes you miserable just because you saw the glorified trailers whenever you finishes the game or because you saw all the hype around it.
If you're not having fun playing it, you're not getting anymore fun just because you beat the game. There's a lot of other games out there and the night is still young. You guys have the time. Find the game that's meant for you and have fun playing it. That's the whole purpose of playing the game. That's the whole purpose of this whole journey. That's the purpose of life.
Hope you guys have a wonderful journey!!
" Sincerely from Sam Rahmat "
