A lot of people want to not have to work. Not have to face risk, all flowers and daisies.
I'm sure a lot of you would have realised this by now: life is not safe. Neither is it easy.
A lot of people feel that security is the next best thing - except - what security? "Normalcy" yes, but no security. Those who suffered through the sub-prime crisis will know. And now, 2012.
With the job: you may get fired because the company needs to cut overheads, even when at your peak, especially when at your peak, because you're suddenly too expensive to upkeep. Unless you're in sales, but how many of us are in sales? And what if the people just aren't buying?
In love: the world is full of temptation. Your spouse may find someone else, or on the flip side - you may fall out of love because of boredom and then find your vows harder and harder to keep. A whole life is a long, long time. Maybe you're fine, but what about your spouse?
With money and investments: well, you gain, you lose.
So ...easy life. What does that mean?
Some women think: "Can't I have someone to rely on? Get married to a rich man!"
Well see, humans are selfish. They'd take care of themselves before they take care of you. And if that man is rich, he'd know the value of having a woman who can bring in her own, not a woman who needs to rely on him. Sometimes, it's pure business: minimise expenditure and maximise the returns. Pure numbers, sometimes.
When getting hitched - love and attraction is one thing, but what plays a part is also: what do you bring to the table? If you aren't bringing in the dosh, what're you bringing in? Do you inspire? Do you comfort? Are you superb at making a home loving and warm? What about you is so different from the live-in domestic help? Because for some (for myself and perhaps for yourself too), divorce is not an option and if the person has to live with an undelightful person - they might sooner die.
Marriage is not safe, folks. Simply because you have to live and interact with another person, give, and take appropriately from that same person. The only thing safe about it is the perceived perpetuity of it. That's life, and life is not safe.
At work, when you finally see security equates lowered/employed wages, you realise that the best ways to give yourself a good shot once you've gotten out of the corporate rat race, finally stepped off climbing the corporate ladder, is to stay out.
which means, finally start your own business, owning a piece of the sky and continue owning that piece of sky.
So you choose a mentor, and embrace that admired stubborn-ness, that hunger, that understanding, that gentleness, that won't-take-no-for-an-answer mindset, or whatever it is about that mentor that you admire. There will be rejections, people who tell you "naw, it's better to do it this way" - but those are irrelevant, cause you decide how you wish to fish, not from some manager who's evaluating you based on the tint on his worldview.
Even if you are in the corporate environment, keep at doing your job well. Be the best, even if it were to give out coupons to people on the street. A good way to think about it is looking at the week: "It's only Tuesday, it sure sucked to-day, but I did my part, and called on 50 prospects/gave out 50 offer coupons for the cafe. Tomorrow will be better, it's only Tuesday. Wednesday will be better, and well done, me! I did what I was supposed to do today."
Just like squirrel thing in Ice Age. Regardless of what happens it keeps chasing after that nut. Someone told me that honey bees, when they go for the honey (that's their version of money), they actually fulfill their true purpose: pollination. Had they not kept (and still do keep) their eyes on the money, the flowers will only be half-pollinated, there will be fewer fruit, trees, less oxygen, less ...heck, everything.
And likewise for us, when we wonder what on earth are we here for, why do I work - know that you're a honey bee, going for the money, but fulfilling your soul-true purpose. It's almost always perpendicular to what you're really doing now, and you may never ever ever see it. But you're doing it.
The only fear is that you're a honey bee, but you're not going after the honey.
Chase your passions. Chase it, do it for the love of God. For beneath and over all of that, you're fulfilling your true destiny.
As for perseverance - I often pray. This generation is the instant generation - it'd do us good to learn patience and perseverance.
I'm often weak Lord, and I get distracted. Please stay with me, and strengthen me. Guide me along Lord, for You are the light and joy and Holiness, and I rely on You. Bless my day, bless my path and my words Lord, so this honey bee may fulfill the destiny that I'm already doing, help me do it better Lord. Glory unto You, Father. In Jesus's Name, amen.
Cause life isn't safe, and life certainly isn't easy.
But it sure as heck is exciting.
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