Ink SpillHow much should we achieve in life? If achievement is something to aim for in life, how much of it would be enough?
If you look at the icons that society glorifies, you’d see that most of them achieved things about as little as the fingers in your hand, if not just the one.
Some have dedicated their whole life for those achievements, some just did them in a moment.
Humans spend so much of their time in idle.
It’s liking leaving the tap open for your whole life and not wanting to drink from it.
If achievements are a worthy pursuit, it might only need a small portion of your life to do it.
Though some achievements do appear like they were done overnight, beneath the curtain was years or a decade of deliberate practice and dedication.
But they are still years, not half a lifetime. In the long span of things, they only needed a portion of your human life.
Though achievements in of themselves don’t feel like the “thing” to pursue or the meaning of life, they sure do beat living life blind, living as a rock, having the dust and sand pile on you until your beneath the earth, not ever giving anything fruitful.