The main principle of the economy is that of a consistent growth. If you are not increasing your numbers, you’re stagnating. And if you are stagnating – the death of your business is just around the corner. The idea of looking around and knowing that every item or service you see around yourself is provided by some company, a collective of people coming together in order to create this one product in order to make our lives easier is what originally inspired me to pursue my interest in the economy.
The current outlook on the finance market isn’t necessarily the one to cause very much trust in the future, but some things just simply can not keep growing forever. Even though the number of the participants in the world economy is steadily growing and it would only make sense for stonks to correlatingly only go up, some things need to be reset and some mistakes made along the way need to be corrected and improved, in order for things to move forward in a better way.
The backbone of the economy and finance is our trust in this sector. Without it there would be no credits and loans, nobody would trust white men in suits trying to sell us a better future. It plays into our primitive instincts of trying to survive and leave a legacy behind us and this is how we end up in a world like this. It doesn’t matter if you agree with the whole ‘hustle-mentality’ and the opinion that you learn your whole life and that if you are not improving – you stopped living, it doesn’t matter if you accept or reject capitalism as a default way of living, because here is the truth: you are still a living human being, in spite and despite of your political/ideological views. Tough times are going to happen every once in a while, since you can only (more or less) control your own actions, but there is nothing you can do in order to influence other people. You live in a society, surrounded by other living beings and so naturally their choices and actions will have an impact on you. Or sometimes things can happen, that nobody could have done anything about – accidents. So how do you survive and stay sane amidst this chaos?
There is a number of different struggles that people have to deal with on a daily basis – you can be dealing with anxiousness about your work or the overall state of the economy; it can be some personal struggle – relationships, friendships, family; you can be dealing with your own inner demons – some unprocessed trauma and many others. A good way to start is something that an Indian author and yogi Sadhguru would call practicing non-attachment. Realize that nothing on this Earth is yours, you come into this world alone with zero belongings and will leave this world alone with the exact same number of belongings (as far as we know). Remove the word “my” when talking about things that you think that belong to you – my spouse, my job, my dog, my house, my car. Living and breathing beings are free and have their own will, you shouldn’t be owning anybody else, just as you wouldn’t want anyone else to own you. And materialistic things are just there to serve in their function – a car, a house or a boat shouldn’t be something that you use to describe yourself. Stop striving to possess things and things will not possess you. Don’t take anything for granted, have no expectations and there will be nothing that can disappoint or hurt you. Taking everything that comes your way as a blessing and a gift will lead to a happy and easy life. Seeing life as a balance sheet of things that you want or need to own will only lead to more disappointment, unsatisfaction and ungratefulness.
And if you ask me personally – once you hit rock bottom, it can only go up from there. The worst thing that you fear will happen to you and you will feel relieved, because you will realize that even then – you are still alive, standing and breathing. You’ve lived through everything that life has thrown at you so far, and you will also thrive through whatever that you are going right now. Your memories and experiences are the only things that are real and that you can carry with yourself through life, so my advice would be – focus on that. Make sure that it is a nice company that you have within your own soul. What do belongings and accomplishments matter, if you lived a miserable life of stress, fear and greed.
Life is to be enjoyed, not owned.
Love,
Faja
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