“I wanted to write you a song, but if I did, I’d have to sing it. So I wrote these thoughts.”
At what point in the course of life does anything really start to matter? This was an audacious yet sincere inquiry. If you've followed me enough, you'll know that I ask questions and wonder about the theories of life and everything in between. This question, however, is just a list of other questions that conclude with this one. We spend a lifetime preparing to be! We seek happiness as if it wasn't an unalienable right from birth. We are born, we live, and then we die; as one notable writer put it, it is too simplistic for one sitting we need more details.
Yes, we are all born with the innate ability to experience joy and happiness, and along the way, we sometimes forget this and convince ourselves we need to seek it out. We often get sidetracked by the unimportant things, the times we thought we really could be great at a particular item if only we had blah blah blah. We spend a lifetime searching for purpose, and that driving feeling of I have achieved this or that, societal views can glorify my existence. Monetary gains become a core of our search, and once acquired, we learn that "money can't buy you love" or happiness. So the question lingers, when does anything really matter.
Have you ever wished for a moment in your life that you could relive again or when you felt like this could've been the turning point? We do, in fact, go through a lot of those. They're not regrettable moments or times; they're just learning moments. Like a reoccurring dream that you only recall moments after you awake.
During the course of life, you'll go through the part that, even to this day, we are training our children to do, not knowing it's probably not accurate. Separate your toys; the big ones go here, the little ones here. These legos go here, and now the dragons go there. The child doesn't care where anything goes, just leaves them out, and you wake up in the middle of the night stepping on a piece of lego man is not fun. The structure becomes the rule of law which now governs life. Get some order in your life so you can get that college degree and start earning a living at whatever it is they taught you, and then get married, have children and picket fences, and here you are, back to square one. Repeating these steps will bring you joy, perhaps if you remember that we were already born with joy and happiness.
As the years progress and time go by, only one true joy in life starts to matter, and that's watching the smile in the eyes of a child just full of curiosity and wonder. Through the journey, you realize nothing truly matters except ensuring that that child's happiness prolongs even when reality will soon dimmer that light.
That’s all.