Striving Hard To Live
Our daily lives are filled with ambition, deadlines and competition.
- It is taught to us that we have to strive for everything: accomplishments, prosperity, or happiness.
- We have to do stuff: act, think, eat, dance, slog, sleep or practice, trying to optimize our ways of being.
It is a never-ending rat race where the faster we run, the more we have to sprint ahead, as there is always someone ahead of us.
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