Is Your Life Fun or a Funnel?
Take a moment and picture a large funnel. Notice the shape, wide at the top and then tapering down to a much narrower end. Now envision life as the shape of that funnel, the top as the beginning, and the bottom as the end. As you venture through life, you begin to discover and quickly accumulate many things. It seems the more you have the better life is. As a young adult, you have unlimited opportunities to discover many things. The top of the funnel has a very big circumference, allowing you to travel about discovering all of what life has to offer. There are educational opportunities, countless places to travel, you begin meeting many people, and job opportunities seem endless and exciting! It all seems wonderful, but there is a catch.
As you move into your twenties and thirties, there is a good chance you have amassed many things life made available to you. You may have landed a great job, maybe even moved out of your parent’s home to be on your own. And what about that nice new car you bought? You and that special person in your life can really have fun cruising around now! It’s all good but you are starting to move down the funnel. These acquisitions are narrowing your circumference, bringing you down deeper and limiting the freedoms you once had.
Now let’s jump ahead to your fifties and sixties, the end of the funnel is closer than the beginning. You now have a job you dislike, a family with children and possibly grandchildren, a spouse or ex-spouse, two cars, a house, bank loans, doctor bills, and countless commitments you’ve made, both business and personal. You are tied so tight to these things that your free time is all but gone, the dreams you once had will never happen, and your future is bleak at best.
STOP!!! Life does not have to be in a funnel!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with setting goals, accumulating material possessions, having families, or anything else you want from life, but life is meant to enjoy. There is never a moment when life should not be enjoyable. So the question is, “How do I make such a complex life enjoyable”? The answer is very simple, remember this; “Nothing in life matters unless you want it to”.
Next week I will follow up on this posting, giving you all the answers to help you create the life you want, and how to control the illusions of space and time.
Iron Guru 