We run and run, and barely catch glimpses as it slips by, faster and faster so as to not let the blur in the corner of our vision overtake us. The road goes on beyond our sight, far into the horizon, winding into obscurity. Yet we run, harder and faster, to defeat an unidentified foe and reach an unclear destination.
Why?
It's time for us as individuals and as a society to reflect on what exactly we are chasing. We center our focus entirely on ourselves. We hear but don't listen, do but don't act, and speak but don't inspire. We move overbearingly through life, perpetually competing with the world, pitting ourselves as lone heroes against a universe of calamity and gritting our teeth, barely breathing, to fight through life.
Is this the way to live- friendless, hopeless, and barely surviving? What are we really striving for?
We compete and fight, but we can never really win. We may push others down to attain the school of our "dreams", then compete for the job of our "dreams", then our home, our love, our lives. Our identities have become so insignificant because we continue to tie them to transient objects and selfish, materialistic goals. Even when we achieve everything we dream of, we arrive at a shallow disappointing reality: one of utter selfishness.
Before we realize true happiness, we must understand what we must achieve. The money we accumulate and resume we build means nothing at the end. Our true mark is the stamp of our character- the lives we touch and the people we help up.
We must live not just to build lives, but to build legacies. The sound of our name should evoke soft smiles and warm memories long after we are gone. We should inspire kindness and generosity because we live on only through humanity. Love, laugh, and touch lives, because in our legacies of kindness and friendship, we can live forever.
