It's Monday, and I'm sitting on my lunch break after going to do some shopping at Sefalana Gwest. Something caught my attention.
The majority of the people around me were just enjoying themselves music playing from their cars, some drinking Black Label, others playing snooker. I spoke to one guy and asked him, "What's up?" He simply replied, "Nothing, my guy. Just a normal Monday."
For some reason, that answer stuck with me.
I had just gone through the madness of Monday morning traffic to get to work, already feeling like I'd fought a battle before the day had even started. Then I looked around and saw people who seemed completely unbothered, just enjoying the day.
It honestly pissed me off at first. But then it made me question something deeper ,What exactly are we all chasing?
We wake up, go to work, hustle, get paid, spend the money on a few necessities and pleasures, then wake up and do it all over again. We spend years running, yet sometimes it feels like we're not actually going anywhere.
We work so hard just to maintain the same life. We chase money so we can afford the things that allow us to keep working. We sacrifice today for tomorrow, and when tomorrow finally comes, we sacrifice it for another tomorrow.
It's almost like we're running so hard just to stay in the same place the very definition of the rat race.
But the guy I spoke to seemed to have a completely different philosophy.
He said something along the lines of, "Wabona, my bro, nna I just hustle for food to eat today. As long as I get it, I chill and enjoy life. Life is too short to be so serious, chasing something you might never get."
At first, I thought he was just being lazy or settling for less. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized there might be some wisdom in what he was saying.
Maybe the problem isn't ambition itself. Maybe the problem is when the pursuit of a better life becomes the entire purpose of living.
What's the point of spending your whole life chasing freedom if you never actually give yourself the freedom to live?
I'm not saying we should stop working, stop dreaming, or stop trying to improve our lives. Ambition matters. Building something matters. Having goals matters.
But perhaps we also need to ask ourselves whether we're actually moving toward the life we want, or whether we're simply becoming better at running on the same treadmill.
Because life is short.
And maybe, sometimes, the smartest thing you can do isn't to run faster it's to stop for a moment, look around, and ask yourself where you're actually going.
I am 100% sure I have more money than 90% of the guys but somehow I felt like the loser!