Keeping Your Eye On The Prize?
KEEPING YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE?
How’s that working out for you?
Seriously…
I am curious!
As a very interesting conversation last week started this train of thought
If you think about it
Everything we’ve ever wanted
Is a state of BEING
Not a state of DOING
And not a state of HAVING
Doing and having comes as a result of being first
It is a FEELING that we’re after
Not an object or an action of getting it
.
Think about it…
You’d have heard me quote Eckhart Tolle before and his war mindset understanding
That when you focus on fighting
You have to have a reason to fight
Otherwise the point of your life becomes nonsensical
And nonsensical is the biggest threat to our identity
It’s the death of it
The death of you
.
So now, think about this for a moment
Or rather FEEL IT
Let’s put thinking aside for a minute
If you feel to get something
Or somewhere
You have to KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE
What are you really telling yourself?
That your purpose is not the state of BEING
And the FEELING that you are after
But
The thing you are AIMING for
.
Can you see how nothing can ever be enough
And it wont be
Nothing will ever be to your satisfaction
You’ll keep craving, aiming and yearning
As if your purpose is KEEPING AN EYE ON IT and going for it
You can’t ever fully have it
As you lose the purpose of your being
Yet again it becomes nonsensical
The biggest threat
The death of you and your being
.
Let me draw a picture for you
You keep an eye on the prize
Let’s say a promotion
You keep going for it
Working your ass off
You get it
You’re happy for a moment
Yet very quickly you aim for something else
The next step on the ladder
An even better job
And even more powerful position
OR
Let’s say you keep an eye on the prize
The car of your dreams for example
You work your ass of again
You keep aiming
You keep working towards it
And then eventually you get it
The prize is there
You feel like you’ve won
How long does the feeling last usually?
A day?
A week?
A month maybe…?
And then what?
You feel incomplete again
You feel like you need another prize to keep your eye on
A house?
Another car?
A holiday to a certain dream destination?
You name it
The prizes you set yourself to win are endless
YET
Nothing deep down is ever enough
Nothing fulfils you
Nothing satisfies that compulsive need for yearning
For aiming
For keeping that eye of yours on another prize
As you told yourself that is your purpose
And if it’s done
Your life becomes nonsensical
To the very fact that you’re no longer aiming
No longer yearning to get that prize
You don’t need to keep your eye on it
.
Fuck!
So what do you do with that now you’ve realised
Why up until now you’ve felt miserable so very often
Even tho
Deep down
If you were to look at your life
You’d say there’s nothing really to be miserable about
Well…
TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE FUCKING PRIZE
Will you?
And stop aiming!
I dare you…
It is a decision
It happens in one moment
Yet the ease of comfort
And satisfaction in your own skin
Just because you are
Just because you are here
That comes with practice
And you know what?
ALL the things that you have previously
Thought that you needed to aim for
And to keep your eye on
Happen with effortless ease
They’re just there for you
And sometimes
Some of them
Become far far less enticing
As you see through the smoke and mirrors…
.
Remember though
We still live in a 3D material world where possessions
Where status
Where identities
Are here for us to play with
Some of the most in PAIN humans I’ve witnessed
Were those desperately trying to neglect and give up all the above
And claim that they don’t need or don’t want it
.
It’s all here for us to play with
I freaking LOOOOVE nice things and experiences
If anyone, you’ll all know this…
It’s how we go about them that matters
And changes everything
It is what it is
It’s there or it’s not
Your essence
Who you are at the core
Does not change with or without it
M x
❤️
