The Logic Prison
Certain circumstances, which escaped him or he purposely ignored, carried him towards a very unique philosophy in his life. Whatever he undertakes, he tries to achieve the results with the least effort, and often the goals remain unreachable or they are reached after a very long period because the efforts deployed are less than the necessary required.
He deeply and strongly believes that nature alone, and not sustained effort, defines the strength and the capabilities of a human being. Therefore, persisting in hard work is nothing but an expression of fear when facing difficult and delicate situations; it is also the embodiment of weakness and lack of self-confidence in our innate abilities; and it is finally a disguised confession of our deficient strength and an ineffective attempt to give the illusion of the inexistence of this deficiency.
It is the way he analyzes things and in this type of logic he has lived so far. One day the limits of this logic will emerge. He will know that there is no achievement without continuous effort. It will become clear to him that we are born incapable of doing many things, and only through smart and hard work, we acquire the ability to accomplish our future. He will realize that in life there are commitments, and they cannot be delivered without relentless, ever increasing, and extraordinary effort. On that day, he will ask himself the essential question that millions of hesitant people have asked before him: “What to do now?”
There are 2 answers to this question:
He decides to turn his life and principles on their head, to negate his previous logic altogether and to start multiplying his efforts. By doing so, he opens the door to all the advisors and wise people of yesterday to remind him and tell him, that they told him so. He will also allow all the idiots that have an ego to feed, to reprimand him and fill his life with what they know to do best, blame the other to glorify themselves!
He sticks with his logic to avoid confessing his wrong, regardless of the consequences of sure loss and potential failure that this choice will bring him.
So really, what to do? Negate his own logic to increase his chances of succeeding and being criticized for his past behavior, or confirm his logic and augment his risk of failure, without any retreat or submission to other people logic?
This person, like many of us in some occasion in our lives, is standing by the gate of his “logic” prison, and asking himself: “should I break out of this jail and face the outside world, with all its opposition, mockery and blame?” or “should I stay in my prison and preserve the coherence of what I have believed in so far in my life, knowing that this will diminish my hopes of any real progress or success?”
In other words, “do we condemn our past logic, leave its prison, and join another prison, maybe bigger, with more opportunities, but with more people in it, or do we strengthen our logic and stay in its smaller, yet less populated prison?”
We are all, at some point and without any doubt, in a prison, so the real question is: “do we give ourselves the possibility to choose in which prison we will be?”
At the end of the end, since we cannot escape gravity, in whichever prison we decide to put ourselves, we are all together in one huge meta-prison called Earth. It is all a question of space (physical, intellectual, emotional and material) and density!