Fighting and Loosing
Values have pretty much fallen by the wayside. Perhaps it is time to stop and think, just what is a good life? What do we want to be known for? And how do we want people to perceive us?
They say that it isn’t so much the prize that matters, but the journey itself. That whether you ever make it to the top of your profession, or succeed in changing that scurrilous law, and there will always be professions to perfect and scurrilous laws to batter ones heads against, it isn’t so much the act of achieving the goal as it is what we put into the journey. At least this is what philosophers say.
If we are indeed like the old man who says he is stepping backwards into the future, for we can only guess at what will come based on what has happened before, then perhaps it really is the journey we take to reach our goal, that is more important than the goal itself.
Men who have managed to climb to the top of the corporate ladder are usually characterized as finding it lonely up there. Whether this is true or not could certainly be debated. Generally people who make that claim are bemoaning the lives the business man stepped on as he made his way to the top. For it is true, the corporate business world is ruthless in its one sided, overarching push to achieve one thing only, the power that money brings.
So, what does this have to do with the journey being more important than the goal? Isn’t that the loser’s philosophy? Isn’t it just the people on the fringes of society who want to take the time to smell a few roses along the way, and isn’t it just a little passe to be concerned with such things as being honorable and truthful?
After all, when we die, we die, right? And we might as well have it all before we go, because we surely won’t be getting any after we cross over.
Guilt is sort of an unnecessary appendage that dies and withers away by the time a man reaches his forties anyway. And if it hasn’t then there’s something a little wrong with the fellow. Such a man isn’t to be trusted, because maybe, just maybe, he’ll remind you of what you are missing in your life. Something about the way such a man carries himself, about the way people instinctively feel they can trust such a person, and the satisfaction he gets from the way he leads his life can be undermining to a totally hedonistic life style.
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