People often claim to do things for others because they care about them. Good intelligent people like you & I often lend help & advice to others. But the raw truth is that we don’t often give a shit.
The proof is in the jizz pudding…
When you want to see something through in life, do you see it through by talking about it, or by doing it?
Of course, if you really care and are committed to the outcome you’re talking about, then you pick your ass up & go do it. You don’t sit there expecting somebody else to take the initiative of doing it. YOU yourself make sure that it happens.
Ahhh… But what about when it comes to the lives of other people?
Do you often just talk to them or do you directly act on what you’re saying to them? What does this say about your real level of care for that person’s life?
Think about it…
Any person you meet in the world consistently puts in hours, days, months, & years towards what they want & believe in.
Whether they are doing so optimally or not, they are still putting in tons of tangible action towards maintaining & bettering their life. They REALLY CARE about their life.
We all have opinions, strategies, & theories for how to optimize various parts of life that we believe in.
We are often all too eager to proactively share & prescribe this wisdom to other people when we observe them not acting optimally in part of their life that we happen to have an intellectual interest in the topic of… whether it be health, relationships, financial, spiritual, how to properly maintain one’s computer system, etc, etc, etc.
But, next time, when you are passionately trying to wake a person up to a more intelligent way of living… STOP for a second… and ask yourself whether you REALLY CARE about the outcome of this individual person’s life.
Do you really even care 1% of the amount that they care?
Are you willing to even put up 1% of the tangible action towards that area of their life, compared to what they have/will?
So why do you shake your head when they don’t implement your more optimal plan? You should be holding up a mirror while doing so.
If the outcome of their results was actually important to you, then you’d pick your ass up and go help them with your tangible action, compared to just talking.
When you proactively prescribe wisdom to others, is it that you really care more about the topic of what you’re saying, or maybe some personal goal or urge of your own?
If you really cared & were committed to what you are saying for the benefit of those other people’s lives, then you’d back it up with the actions you recommend as often as you proactively prescribe them.
Those people are already investing orders of magnitude more of real care for their lives. What are you tangibly doing for them in their lifetime beyond a few sessions of talking?
You are willing to contribute some real action to a few close friends & family of yours, right? You must really care for what happens to their lives then, huh?
I, myself, have been a guilty prick when it comes to acting like I really care about the lives of others, when really I’m just talking.
So if I don’t jump in and offer tangible action towards implementing the strategies I prescribe, then it means that I don’t really care about your life. You are highly expendable to me and I just enjoy passionately reaffirming my own beliefs in your presence. I’ll probably be off dispelling my life wisdom to somebody brand new by next week.
