After my move, I started to think about what living long-term means. Today, I will answer it.
What is our attractiveness?
Sometimes, we want to know our attractiveness, especially if we have unique personalities and don’t know what we can do. We cannot live like our surroundings. We have to find out our way of life.
However, it is often hard to find it, and it makes us lose our confidence. That often confuses our direction in life and causes stagnation.
I also had such a problem. I lost my confidence in how to live.
After my move, I started to try to live for the long term in my life. This is because I wanted to live naturally while doing what I am good at. On the other hand, chasing short-term trends or treating people’s trivial emotions exhausts me. I wanted to make the most of my unique personality. That was why I started to live for the long term, distant from society.
However, as mentioned above, I didn’t know how to live. That made me think about the way of this life.
Today, I will introduce my current answer. Tackling our life’s difficulties is the attractiveness of people who live for the long term. This perspective might allow us to proceed in our unique direction with confidence.
The attractiveness of people who live for the long term
One attractiveness of people who live for the long term is that they are tackling our life’s difficulties.
Living for the long term means taking on difficult problems. We cannot solve it soon. It requires mental patience to keep facing the problem. The harder the problem is, the less people dare to challenge it. Many people want such mental strength but cannot, so they convince themselves with an instant answer, even if it is often a lie to themselves.
It also means people who live for the long term have one passion. They want to solve it, even if they have to devote their whole life. Those who can live with such purpose in life and energy are happy.
Why being imperfect makes us happy
From this perspective, being imperfect makes us happy. Many people disguise themselves as perfect. They pretend to know everything and try to influence others. However, this is an exhausting life for those who want to live honestly and naturally. Pretending to be perfect is not an attractive life for such people.
On the other hand, if we can face our problems, the unknown becomes fun. We can enjoy it because we can learn it and solve it ourselves. If we have a unique nature, finding its meaning would be our great happiness. It will reward us.
This is why people who can face difficulties are attractive.
A life without straying vs. a life with it
In other words, there are two ways of life, as follows:
- A life without straying: This is for people who live socially dependently. If they can give value to society, they can satisfy another desire by asking someone for help.
- A life with accepting straying: This is for people who want to live independently. They are distant from society, so they have to solve their contradictory desires on their own.
If we head to independence, we often have contradictory desires. Sometimes, we want to change, but sometimes, we want to be stable. Even though it is our desire, we sometimes don’t know why we have such a changeable mind.
Following a fickle soul’s voice
We sometimes call it a soul. Although we have a soul, we cannot control it. It tells us what it wants from time to time. All we can do is listen to it sincerely and try to fill it as much as possible.
We have such a soul and have to listen to the voice. Although the inner voice sounds selfish, it has meaning and leads us to happiness.
Usually, an imperfect and straying life looks negative. However, it is a good life to enjoy if we know how to live.
This is the same as being a creator. We create things instead of buying them. This is because it is fun, and nothing in this world answers our desires.
Conclusion
That is why tackling our life’s difficulties is the attractiveness of people who live for the long term.
An imperfect and straying life will be enjoyable if we know how to live.
This perspective might allow us to proceed in our unique direction with confidence.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope to see you in the next one.
