Knowing What You Are Doing

A person

Is chasing success.

 

A person

Is chasing peace.

 

A person

Is chasing greatness.

 

The Truth is,

Very very few

In the entire human population

Achieve such things.

 

The few who do

Largely do so

By accident.

 

The reason for this

Is because

No One Knows What They Are Doing.

 

They are throwing darts at a board.

They are hoping for blind luck.

They are wishing for the stars to line up.

They are groping in the dark.

 

If one does not know

What he is doing

His only possibility

Is blind luck.

 

It is important for a man to remember

That he has only One Life.

That he has only a certain number of years

Allotted to him.

 

He does not have 72 lifetimes

To try anything and everything

Under the sun.

 

He does not get

74 million attempts.

 

In fact,

One does not even have One lifetime.

 

Because if he found it in his final few years of old age,

He does not have time, or perhaps even health, to appreciate it

And utilize it.

 

He cannot achieve it

When he is a small child.

 

And he cannot achieve it

When he is old and gray.

 

Thus,

In reality,

A human only has a set number of years

To achieve what he wants to achieve.

 

His window of time

Is quite small.

 

It is this

That he does not realize.

 

And in this small window of time

If he does not know what he is doing,

He is virtually certain

To fail.

 

He may spend this window of time

Reading various books.

 

But if those books

Are not correct,

He will have wasted his window of time.

 

He may listen

To various guru’s and experts.

 

But if those guru’s and experts

Are not correct,

He will have wasted his window of time.

 

Man sees before him

An infinite expanse of hours and days.

This very behavior

Destroys his life.

 

Show me a man

Who has a lot of time

And I will show you

A failed man.

 

A Serious man

Is a man who is determined to actually get somewhere.

 

Not talk nonsense and rubbish.

And chat about platitudes and philosophies.

 

It does not require a great deal of intelligence to realize,

That if a man seeks to actually get somewhere,

He must know what he is doing.

 

The Truth

About where a thing is

And the path to getting there

And the paths to avoid

Is therefore,

More valuable than anything else on earth.

 

If he does not have it,

He does not need to wait

To see how his life will turn out.

 

It can be predicted here and now

That he will fail.

 

Namaste.