Band-Aiding Life - The Problem With How Our World Works Today
Band-Aiding Life
The Problem With How Our World Works Today
Written by a human, for humans, always.
When you run into a problem…
What do you do to solve it?
Especially when…
The only way to fix the problem…
Requires you to go out of the way of your current projected path?
The answer that the vast majority of people give…
Is to put a “band-aid” on it…
Or put a temporary solution in place…
So that they can stay on the projected path.
I see this in many different areas of life.
People do this in business.
People do this with their health.
People do this with their finances.
But here is the problem…
When are you going to take the time to put together a true solution?
One that actually fixes the problem?
The answer that the vast majority of people give…
Is “eventually”…
But it is an “eventually” that is never pursued…
Because the “finish line” of the projected path moves.
What this ends up doing…
Is create a never-ending pursuit toward a future goal…
Where the problems never really get fixed.
This is when the real problems begin.
Imagine it like this…
You get a cut on your leg, but “do not have time” to clean the cut…
You just put a band-aid to prevent blood from going everywhere…
Then the cut becomes infected…
But you “do not have time” to get the infected tissue cut out…
So the infection spreads throughout your leg, making it unusable…
But you “do not have time” to get the leg amputated…
So the infection continues to spread into the bloodstream…
Moves into your heart…
And brain…
Until finally…
There is nothing that anyone can do to save you.
You would think that someone who is wise would clean out the cut long before this happened…
But versions of this play out all the time.
People take pills to hide pains that continue to recur over and over.
People play with accounting numbers instead of looking for why the numbers do not look right to begin with.
People take on larger levels of debt without any plans that will allow them to pay that debt back.
People allow the addictions to grow out of control.
People put off seeing the doctor.
People put off time with their family.
People do not take time to sleep.
People eat processed and junk food, so they do not need to cook.
Each and every single one of these…
And many more…
Are different types of band-aids to the real problems that we are experiencing…
And they become infections that spread through our lives…
In different and horrifying ways…
Until we destroy ourselves in the process.
What is most sad...
Is that people fail to see how...
By failing to work on these problems when they arise...
They actually prevent themselves from actually attaining the goals they have in life.
There is a reason that the “finish lines” continue to move further and further away...
Always seeming just out of reach.
To truly reach these goals...
We need to have our health.
But...
Because we continue band-aid problems...
Our conditions make us slower...
And make progress forward vastly more difficult.
So...
It is not really that the “finish line” is moving away...
Rather, the effort required for us to reach it becomes exponentially higher.
Think of it like this...
You start a journey to reach 100 miles...
And you walk 1 mile a day.
In theory...
It should take 100 days to get there.
But you get the cut on day 10...
And you can only go 0.95 miles per day.
This means that you have 90 miles left, but it will take nearly 95 days to get there.
Then you go another 10 days...
You have gotten 19.5 miles...
But the infection spreads to the leg, and you can only move at 0.5 miles per day now.
You have 80.5 miles left, but it will take 161 days to get there.
Then you go another 11 days...
You have gotten 25 miles...
But the infection spreads further, and you can only move at 0.1 miles per day now.
You have 70 miles left...
But it will take 700 days to get there...
Then...
You die before you even make it halfway.
This is how so many people live their lives...
Believing that they do not have the time to fix the problems they have...
But the reality is...
That by failing to take care of the problems...
The problems become exponentially worse...
And end up becoming the reason they will never reach their goals in life.
You can only ignore and band-aid problems for so long...
Before the problems begin to spread.
Do not allow yourself to perish...
Simply because...
You band-aided your entire life.
To Your Sageship,
Cody
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