Chronicles - Drive
by Burak Catli
I wanted to write a post here for a long time, but didn’t think that I had enough material for a proper blog post. Figured that I’m never going to write if I waited for ideas, so decided that I’m going to ramble on.
What drives you? What makes you get out of the bed in the morning? These questions were bothering me for some time, you know? What makes you do the things you do? Why do we ask kids what you want to be and never why they want to be? Why do we want to be? Why do I want to be? Why do we want to be? What is the meaning of life? No we’re not going there.
I usually find people lacking in the department of motivation or discipline. Why don’t they want to be something when they can be. This is meant to be a rhetoric question since the answer is clear, it’s laziness. Let’s put it like this, I am a pretty driven individual, I constantly try to find something new to dwell on, think about. It’s not like I am always on something new, something next level, in fact it’s garbage most of the time. I tried to start a few projects in what, last 6 months, however procrastination got the best of me. And that was when I started to think, what really drives me, compels me to do new things.
The thing is, motivation is bullshit. I like doing new things, exploring, learning because I like it. And not everybody likes the same things, maybe you like other things, like football or dressing in your mom’s clothes or somethin’. So it is no use to try really hard to be something just because it is expected from you, in my opinion it even sucks because you actually make some money to live, because people don’t always like things that make money. I thought that I was going to write a somewhat motivating post, but turns out even I don’t believe in that. You certainly don’t need to be something you don’t want, you don’t need “motivation” to succeed just because someone expects you to. I mean, I would really love it if you became successful, and changed the world or something like that. And I would certainly want you to be something, something good, something better; especially if I belived that you had the potential. But you shouldn’t force yourself to be something just because someone or me or the society thinks you should be. And you should definitely not take this kind of advice from random shit you find on the internet.
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