Existencial Crisis
No one is better than me, but I am not better than anyone.
I think this is a cool way to start your day.
Don’t really know where I’m going with this one, but those days, I feel like I’ve been having an existential crisis – yeah, the one you get at 35.
To me -at least up ’til now, there has never been a question between working for myself or someone else.
Recently, I unexpectedly got hit by a strong wind of Altruism, making me question lots of things I though were answered for life.
I somehow came to the realization that individual success – whatever your definition is, ain’t the ultimate goal.
I was born in France, in a white open-minded family alongside with 4 siblings, on an organic farm, my parents never stopped me from doing anything, they even helped me to go away for a year after high school. I mean I could go on and on but I think you got it.
I was raised in a loving environment with the right tools to critically reflect on what the world that surround me is composed of.
But there is something else. I haven’t (yet) been bough over by perverted corporate or politic ways of conceiving things. I am not saying that it won’t ever happen, but it hasn’t yet.
What I’m trying to say is that I have to help others who didn’t get the chance or the time to observe the world around them.
Is it possible to be an entrepreneur in this corporate oriented/ capitalist society and thrive to help people around me and make this world a better place ? Can I do something for myself AND others ?
Or no matter what I do, I will end up serving the system I have been criticizing ?
There is this very naive side of me that believes both are compatible.
It is like they have made it too fucking hard to do something different from the main stream.
But I gotta stop complaining. People have issues way worse than this in their everyday life. One day, I heard someone say something in the lines of;
If all the people in the world were to throw all their problems on a big pile, you’d come around to throw yours and then you’d run away scared and ashamed.
One more reason to keep living and stop complaining.
It is tough at the top.
Cheers,
Pierre
