Struggling to make life better (#2083)

In our current society struggling to make ends meet very much takes up most of our time. We have little energy left after fulfilling our daily responsibilities to our work and our families. It doesn't leave much time for our passions and causes. Work seems to be the biggest culprit when it comes to the quantity and quality of our focus which leaves less time for the adventures and growth experiences our families are constantly experiencing with and without us. It should not be so that we have to choose between living a life and sustaining one. Something has to break in order for us to have both quality of life in our work and in our private lives. There are many proposals and ideas about how to effectively integrate work, family and the pursuit of happiness into being but that is an argument for another time. What is needed now is the awareness that regardless of how hard it is to make ends meet we must continue to strive forward with all the effort we can muster to demand change within reason. Like all things that are complicated, progress must come in steps, some large steps but usually many smaller ones first. We must be able to comprehensively see how our lives are being lived without the emotions of anger and frustration dominating those thoughts. We have to be coldly calculative about our realities and accept whatever fate we are currently experiencing. That does not mean we have to accept that fate as our final destination, but instead only as a starting point to move to another. Once we are firmly grounded in where we are, we may then chart a course to where we want to be. What little time we have to work at changing our lives to the better is well spent when we are efficient about how we use it. To be absolutely clear, I am not talking about manipulating one bad idea into something better for ourselves, I am talking about formulating and concluding greater creative possibilities and then fighting like all get out to make them come into reality. What we fight for is as important as what we work and live for.