If The World Could Talk To You, It Would Scream
It’s time to stop “going through the motions”
If the world could talk to you, it wouldn’t. It would scream at you instead.
You don’t deserve the universe’s patience, time, energy, or courtesy.
For too long the world has watched you make the same mistakes over and over, time and time again.
For too long the world has watched you fail to live out your potential.
For far too long the world has watched you kick yourself, complain about any and everything, cry about your misfortunes, and do nothing about it.
What’s worse? You’re not the only one.
The world has billions of people to host; the majority of them are people living life without intention and complaining about how their lives were lived in such a stupid manner.
The world has watched countless people arrive at the end of a long life and regret every moment of it.
How do you think this makes the world feel? How would you feel if you were a host to guests who did nothing but use your resources and complain about every moment of their stay?
The problem is that the world knows its hands are tied. It wants to help you, but the order of things dictates that everything must happen naturally.
The world can only help you when you are ready to be helped.
It can only help you in a way that naturally follows the actions you take.
The effect naturally follows the cause, and the cause is dictated by the choices you make.
No one can help you until you help yourself.
No one can help you until you put in the work.
The great news is that you are in control of the cause. If it is so that the world will naturally follow the actions you take based on the choices you make, you can use this to your advantage. In fact, this is what the world wants.
Why would the universe root against you? Why would the universe bet against you?
The world has nothing to gain from praying for your downfall.
It only hopes that you figure the system out and use it to your advantage. Fulfilling your passions and bringing joy and value to the world only helps it become a better place.
I’m not saying anything new here, I never am. The world has been able to help many fulfill their dreams because those people did the necessary things to ensure they were fulfilled.
This is a natural process, people.
The idea of being “so good they can’t ignore you” comes from this. If you are so good, the world has no choice but to take notice.
This is a natural cycle of life that was has been set into motion from the extraordinary, intentional, and hard-earned acts of a laser-focused individual, an individual determined to live their life to the fullest and rid themselves of any regret.
What does luck have to do with it?
What does talent have to do with it?
It’s all skill, hard-earned skill.
The world rewards you for working on your craft.
The world provides the natural outcomes to the choices you make.
The world rewards you for following your dreams.
What will you choose to do?
If the world could talk to you, it would scream.
It would scream at you because it contains all of these bottled-up emotions of sadness, sorrow, and doubt.
The world would tell you to wake up.
It would tell you that it’s tired of seeing so many broken dreams, broken promises, and painful regrets.
It would tell you that it can only help you if you help yourself.
It will tell you that your death is inevitable and regret is likely.
But perhaps it will also tell you how capable you are of growth and change.
Perhaps it will tell you that it believes in you.
Certainly, it wouldn’t tell you that your dreams are impossible.
Why?
Because the world has seen so many others before you become much better, fulfilled versions of themselves, and the world is just happy it gets to come along for the ride.
“…that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!”
— William Hutchison Murray