Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. He became one of the London’s most popular playwrights at 1890’s. He was imprisoned being convicted of sodomy.
Wilde served his two years in prison and then spent the last three years of his life in exile. He died at the age of 45 and was buried in Paris. He is most remembered by his only novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and his satirical statements.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
What did he try to say with this quote? We all know that he says to find meaning in our lives but what does that mean? What does finding a meaning means?
As time goes by we continue our education so we can have a decent job. When we grow into adults and finish our education, we take a decent job and we work our a**es off to secure our hardly earned position.
Years after working hard we create a family and we continue with our hard work just so our kids can get as great education as we did.
In a blink of an eye we are ready to retire; our kids are all grown up and leave home continuing with the process; we acquire pension and we are finished with this process of securing our life; For What?
What are we left with after all of this except experience on the things we didn’t even love doing that much?
We live in a constant fear. As much as we don’t want to agree, the evidence is here. Look at it! It’s in front of you! Aren’t you a little mad? Why don’t you scream from the bottom of your heart in frustration? You waste your life on pointless things that fear orders you to do.
You Cannot Fight Fear with Fear. Fear is fought with courage; by facing it. After it does its little tricks to scare you just say “It’s ok buddy. I know you are more afraid than me”.
Get to the other side of fear and you’ll see that it is just love turned upside down. Free your fear!
Only by freeing our fear and letting go we can do the things that we truly want to do.
Forget everything. Find Your Life’s Purpose, discover your passions and talents; listen to what your heart has to say and just let go of the limits fear chained you with. Start doing all of those things; that’s how you bypass fear.
If fear says but how will we earn money to survive laugh at it. Say “not by being afraid!”
If fear says but you cannot be a painter, you cannot support a family with that salary, say “watch me!” and die trying if you need to, to prove it wrong! It is better to die while trying to live than die while never living at all.
Those who are brave die only once but those who are cowards die multiple times through their life.
If you think being serious about some problem makes you worthy of its importance you are gravely lying to yourself. You can be laughing and joking about a problem and always find finer solutions than being serious because you don’t limit your imagination.
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” – Oscar Wilde
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The worthiness of a man comes from honoring something bigger than the problem itself. The strength of a man comes from being strong enough not to take things seriously but in the same time understand their importance. The greatness of a man comes from remaining a humble human through all of this.
The only reason why we think we are not strong enough is because we doubt ourselves.
We doubt ourselves because we are afraid to find out how great we can truly be.
It’s our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Don’t ask yourself “Who am I to be great?”, instead ask yourself “Who am I not to be great?!”
We all live in middle of ever expanding chaos but our greatness comes exactly through this.
You are never safe! Safety, like fear is just an illusion. Don’t be just a part of the chaos, try to find peace, joy and fun in the midst of it.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
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