It All Starts With a Few Steps
Today, I wanted to discuss my interpretation of this beautiful quote. This quote is brilliant as it's a simple one liner but it gets across a powerful message. The quote is simply connecting together courage, freedom and happiness.
To achieve happiness we need freedom but to get that freedom we need courage. In other words, we need to take the first few steps; we need to brave to do what we want and not get discouraged by what others say. After achieving this step, we have plenty of choices that come afterwards which I want to call the happily unhappily ever after choices.
These happily unhappily ever after choices is the freedom we get from being courageous and taking those first steps. Of course in life we have plenty of choices, we decide our own future what we want to do, what kind of life we want etc.
These happily unhappily ever after choices are more towards the choices that play a bigger role in the level of happiness in our life long term. I guess we could also call this our "ideal life". Everyone has a happiness they want to achieve and not everyone will have the same end goals that lead to that ideal life.
I will use my goal for my own happiness as an example. I know for a fact that I don't want to work for others for my whole life. I will eventually want to start my own business when I'm ready. It's not easy to start your own business; it takes courage firstly. Then you have those happily unhappily ever after choices which is basically do you put in the work or do you slack off. It's our freedom choose to build or to fall apart. If I'm able to build and work hard on creating a successful business I will be happy. I'll be making a ton of money firstly and I will get to live the lifestyle I want and I will have more time to do what I want and be with family after putting in all the hard work. That's the happiness I would want to achieve. On the other hand, if I don't make the right choice and work at building my business well I will crumble and be unhappy because I will have to work for others and probably have less time for family and that's not what I want.
Ok I guess I have overcomplicated it so let me use another example where you may understand and relate to better. Writing on Hive is a great example of being courageous. You have to put yourself out there, and share your experiences and input to people from online. Some people aren't so comfortable sharing all this. In a sense, blogging on Hive is like a business. We have the freedom to grow this business by writing quality content, engaging with others, and powering up Hive.
We also can do the opposite by writing garbage, not engaging and always powering down. I'm almost positive people that do the former will be happier in the end and those that do the latter well they are the ones that always complain and wonder why they can never earn on this platform. The people that will do the former will be able to write what they love and earn money doing it, make awesome connections and ultimately be happy. The latter will end up usually sad, angry, and literally leave the platform with nothing learned and nothing gained.
To be honest, I could go on forever with that but I would like to conclude by saying find out what's your end goal. The end goal that you want in your life that will make you happy. Take those first steps towards there and keep working at it. Use the freedom you have to make the right decisions. You may make wrong decisions but at least learn from it. In the end, I hope you reach that happily ever after. As for me, I'm still working towards that happiness. This doesn't necessarily mean I'm unhappy but I'm still young and I have a lot of things to learn as well as achieve.
Sorry for the long talk. I got kind of carried away as I resonated with the meaning of this quote and I hope I was able to enlighten you with my interpretation of this quote. Anyways I hope you all have a great weekend!
not only that, unlike twitter and other social media platforms that would limit what one has to see, hive was decentralized social media that is a definition of freedom.
O.O u wanna go that deep . that is true saydie i couldve mentioned that as well~
might as well add that since hive was already mentioned 😎.
lol its ok i assume that most people writing here know that already :p
The hardest part about any journey is taking the first steps. That was in a movie or something somewhere and yes, it is totally true with most things in life whether it is making a new friend, flirting with a girl, exercising, or starting a business.
I think that with the business you need a good plan as well too though, not just courage.
:P Well that's where the freedom comes in lol that's kind of what I meant by it's up to the person to make the plan and execute it if they don't well they they won't be happy. There's a lot of people with great ideas and they could start a business with them but they don't have the courage to do it as it usually is outside of their comfort zone or they are scared to fail etc. You are right though a plan is definitely important to start but people need courage or they don't even get to the point of making a plan!
there is no great rewards without risk. I basically work as a contractor and don't have a full time employer and that is about as close as I need to be to not be working for anyone else. I do know a lot of people that have their own businesses and if they manage to be successful they are probably the happiest people I know with their employment whereas the people who work for a corporation are generally quite unhappy with their work lives.
You go get em!
Hey that sounds great that you're a contractor. That really is as close as you can get. You are here writing on hive so that's also another thing where you working for yourself and sharing to community!
And your point about those that have their own business and those that work for others is exactly my point of why I wanna start my own business. There's too much greed nowadays better have a place where we have control!