Have you built anything before? Or do you let everything to be done by the experts.
Since the beginning when we started to walk, we were taught to build things. We started learning letters, combined them into words, sentences and essays. We built our skills, to earn a living at the end. We built a pond in the garden, a broken chair to be mend, built a career and friendships, relationships. As individuals, as society, as nations, we build everything, necessary and unnecessary.
We build things, knowing they do not last long. We build reputations, hopes, and our knowledge and values. How exhausting it could be, when we do is all building.
I can remember when we were small, my parents started to build a house. It took years, it was never finished. I helped them, with bricks, with concrete and building sand. Exhausted one day I asked my mom 'when do we ever finish?' I really can't remember what she said, maybe she was sad. Even now when I look back, all I can remember is it was so damn tiring to build.
But now I know, it was tiring for me, because I didn't enjoy building houses, but since then I have built a lot unknowingly, like I said, it's our nature to build things.
So, when we think about building, throughout all our lives we do is building, when are we ever going to start living on what we build? Or in reality what is the meaning of life when the building is stopped? Is there any meaning at all?
Imagine you are building a house, do you have to have a perfect finish, till you be completely happy? Can you really live in a half-built house with complete satisfaction? or do you want all the brick walls covered with cement and tiles? Or do you want all the windows and doors, completed tip top modern fashion? The truth is it would never happen, in thousand years we cannot build a house without a single flaw, there will be always dirty walls and unhappy corners in houses we build, and sooner we learn to be satisfied and realize this fact, more we will become content and down to earth.
And we will always find the happiness is when we stop building houses and start living in half build ones. After all, living in the house is more important than building the house itself.
Now, let's look back at ourselves and find out about our perfect mental houses, that we started building. And try to apply what we learn from houses. Take a break. After all it's never going to be a perfect dream.
Thank you for reading: On building a shed, a house, a career or anything astound !
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