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Making Your First Million
Chapter 26 - What's It All About
Anyway?
So often we say: "I need to try harder. This isn't quite working, but, well, it nearly is. Oh,
if only I could just somehow make it." But what if we're going the wrong way? What if
we've got it completely the wrong way around and our pride won't let us admit we're
wrong? We can choose to deny and put on a façade and try harder and endeavor to keep
others under control, working to our game plan. And we can gird our loins and pretend
even harder. We can put on a serene, wise, and good exterior. We can wheedle and
pressure others into conforming, and they will to keep the peace, sometimes. But it never
lasts. There's always some - mongrel comes along to foul things up.
And we can look at the seeming easy success of others and envy in secret. We can look at
their casual happiness and wish 'If only . . . ', not knowing how to get what they seem to
so effortlessly and undeservedly possess. And we can try harder, knowing that at least we
did our best. Nobody can criticize us for the effort we put in. It's just those snakes in the
grass who . . .And we can wish that we could have friends like . . . And we try harder and
we ensure our reputation and appearance is spotless and at least we're not like them, I
mean, the garden . . . And we reassure ourselves with material success, possessions,
position, family, reputation, irreproachability. And no matter how hard we try, I mean, it
isn't fair. Everything that should give us happiness turns to ashes in our mouth. Even that
which we had is taken from us.
And we build our wall with greater effort and determination. And the happiness of others
is a scourge to our backs and we try harder and develop a core of anger beneath our shell
of success. And it rankles that they can do it so easily while I'm struggling here on all
fronts trying to keep it all together. How dare they? I'm as good as any of you! Better! I'm
the one who's putting in all the effort and what thanks do I get? And we become lonely
and angry and hurt and we turn our backs on them and decide to show them. We take on
a quiet determination to beat them hollow and outdo them on every front.
If this describes you, as it once described me, I may have something of value for you
from my own story. It seems to me that our life is a battle between love and fear, good
and evil, and that our purpose here is to find happiness and contentment. Our fearful
human nature would have us build walls that exclude others and elevate us by repressing
others. This is a lonely and destructive thing to do. There is a better way. We can have it
all and we can have it now, but we need to acknowledge that there is a force of creation,
there is a power outside of ourselves which every race and culture on earth
acknowledges, however shyly in our Western minds, as God.
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