I believe you have no more than two major decisions in life.
The first takes shape right after adolescence and is determined by education, by how your basic intellectual accumulations allow you to evaluate the meaning of existence: do you help people or dedicate yourself exclusively to your own needs?
If you remain focused on yourself, it’s simple; that’s it, good luck!
If you decide to help, it’s more difficult—you need to periodically evaluate yourself, create means, find social tools, accumulate resources, and during this last process, you’ll act seemingly selfish, with your eyes fixed on the goal, immune to background noise.
Then you reach the next decision: do you help people, the world as a whole, or just a few individuals through targeted interventions?
You must choose carefully here, because the world can only be helped with huge resources, and the path to accumulating them will seem selfish, with no targeted intervention in ordinary life stories.
If you take this path, expect to be demonized; most people want you to solve their own problems, not being very concerned about others, as they’ve made the first decision correctly.
Moreover, when you reach the point where you can push history in the direction you believe is right, the whole world will oppose you.
Does that sound bad?
It’s worse than it sounds.
So, do you decide to help only a few people?
You’re already less naive; become a doctor or a philanthropist.
And don’t expect anything good; you won’t even find spiritual satisfaction—almost everyone you’ve helped will curse you.
Why?
Because ordinary people detest those who have created an obligation for them.
They weren’t better or smarter to change their fate; they were just lucky, thieves, or had a rich uncle help them…
How can you love such a story when you almost broke your neck not because you were foolish, lazy, or consumed by hatred and envy, but because you were unlucky, sick as a child, or born in a small, poor town…
Otherwise, you would have been a success!
In short…
Two decisions, right?
Choose wisely.
Cătălin Beciu
