From TopVincent.Com
I have always wanted a lot of things and I still do want so many things—-some are necessary and many fall within the unnecessary box.
I wanted to finish College and I got that done. Then I wanted a degree and I went ahead for that too. After the degree, I wanted a masters, which I am almost done and now I am thinking about a P.hd, and it is highly likely I will go chasing that too.
Aside the above, I wanted a job which I got, and then I wanted to be working for myself by a certain age, which I went after it and got it achieved. I wanted a car; I have bought several—one after another as they keep messing up. I wanted to travel a lot which I have done and continue to do…
For the many years of my life, I’ve been “WANTING” things and the moment I get these things, they become unimportant to me—the next want sets in and I go chasing that.
This is not an isolated lifestyle or a definition of my existence alone—it is how millions of people, both old and young are living their lives. Many more will join and many will die wanting, without ever living.
I remember reading Timothy Ferriss’ New York Times Bestseller-The 4 Hour Work Week (Escape the 9-5 Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich), in which he highlighted the fact that many people will never live, yet they will die.
Ferriss had a brilliant advice, which is, even if you want to work like a donkey so you can keep chasing wants, that is somehow fine. But instead of waiting to be 70 years to retire (when you cannot really do much), you must take mini retirements throughout your life—instead of “hoarding the recovery and enjoyment for the fool’s gold of retirement”. He was right when he said life is most enjoyable when you are effective, not when you are 60 with eye problems. That will never amount to living but struggling to live…
The most important question is, when do we stop the “wanting” in order to live and enjoy life for what it is—and celebrate the many wants we had which are no more, because they’ve been accomplished?
I surely do not want to live the rest of my life wanting, without ever giving myself the opportunity to LIVE but breaking away from the magic circle of want demands a total change in mindset. And I’ve realized that to do this, I must start by placing less value on my wants, more value on my life and a higher value on those things that have been achieved.
At College, I spent 3 years studying Economics and what I took out of it all which is relevant to this today is; man has insatiable demand for more and more goods and services. We are inherently greedy and what most of us do not know is; we are robbing our own selves from living, with this irrepressible hunger for more and more…
A friend of mine broke away easily from the desire of unending wants which robs us of our own existence by becoming a minimalist. (You can read about how rich he is now and what it takes to become a minimalist from here).
Since then, I have seen him living his life to the highest, and I sometimes envy him (not that he has a lot) but because he has been able to break away from this pathetic lifestyle most of us will die chained to. For people like him, he has no wants, he only has a life to live and what matters to him is good health—the rest, he cares less.
We have just this life and yet we continue to place so many things ahead of living it. I’ve taken upon myself to end the wanting so I can begin living—so I can enjoy my existence.
I hope you also get to ask yourself this; When Will the Wanting End So You Can Embrace Living?
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Chris you brag too much. We hear all achievements whats next
Well, the purpose of the article is not what you are focusing on. If this is all you have taken from it, then you have lost an opportunity to make good changes to your life.
As long as people think their happiness/love or what will make them happy lies outside of themselves then their wanting of things will never end…
Who are you to tell someone they lost an opportunity to make changes to their lives. You think you have all u got by your own strength? U can loose all in just a sec. Ur name will be called n nobody will care to know while u are well alive…u are soo brainwashed and it’s sad. Well, some humans are not ordinary like you coz their destiny in the hands of God their creator…yea?!
This comment is one of the reasons why people like me don’t comment here. What is this inane and fatuous comment to do with the message in the OP..
I was forced to comment on the religious article because of the epileptic display of ignorance of most of the posters ( which wasn’t really surprising since most Ghanaians or should i say most humans are in the dark really..) I will try to comment more to obliterate the ignorance out of people like you here..
Now go read the article again and this time very very slowly so you can imbibe and reflect on the core message of the OP..
So you mean he should not mention what he has achieved to make a point? I am sure you are loser so sad and intimated by what he has achieved. Chris if I were you, I will boldly write these achievements everywhere to piss people like this off. This comment was so unnecessary because the article was not wholly about achievements
I am a loser with more advanced degrees than u and ur entire bloodline. Chris did not insult me, i guess ur sexuality confusion is extended everywhere.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha imao. It’s craaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzy!
Chris will not insult you because he is smarter than you. You came to insult him and he didn’t. How does that make you feel with all your degrees? Who cares about your degrees? He has a platform where he can write about his so he has the right to do it why are saying yours now? I sense insecurity just like Akosua did. Stop being nasty to women that is not nice
So really, when are we coming to read something interesting, fun, the usual thought-provoking articles apart from this same old me me me and me again. put your ideas out and let people read. I had this and didn’t see that and attraction is knowing philosophy and all that is plain narcissism… wow….bragging be what…….
Comments like this makes me wonder if people like you are stupid or haters. This Chris’ blog so everything on here is about him (his ideas, his opinions, his thoughts and what he likes and dislikes). So if you are tired of knowing about his stuff why don’t you start your own blog? Some of us appreciate his ideas and opinions that is why we keep coming. So this article is not thoughtprovoking to you? You dont know the meaning of the word you just used