The eternal question:
Why do some people sail through life easily and without hardship while others have to work so very hard?Are you asking why some people suffer more? Why some are born in abject poverty? Why some must face war and hatred? That is, indeed, eternally inexplicable.
But I think you are getting at something else….
It is a question of how much you want out of life. If you want to achieve more than the average or even above-average person, you will “have to work so very hard.” And there will certainly be more setbacks along the way. They will slow down and eventually stop the others — because of lack of ambition, lack of imagination, lack of energy, or, ultimately, lack of interest — but they won’t stop you.
I have never read a biography of or an interview with a very successful writer, politician, artist, or business person that says anything different. To bastardize a phrase: no one ever said on their deathbed, “I wish I spent less time working for my dreams.”
I want to live an extraordinary life, so I must put in extraordinary effort.
I posted my “eternal question,” as I put it, out of a state of admitted selfishness.
I am lucky: my citizenship, family station and ethnicity all give me an advantage that I can utilize and work from. I am afforded luxuries—such as ready internet access, food and shelter—that millions of others do not have.
But, despite all this, I sometimes wonder why a percentage of individuals seem to have everything they want or need fall into straight little lines. It’s not necessarily an output of significant effort or work. It’s also not the most exciting life, but it is easy and it is privileged. A great deal of this can be attributed to family attitudes about monetary compensation and their ability to even have attitudes about such a thing.
