Are you being true or pathetic?

I’ve always thought that one of the most important measures of success in your life is how often you really feel alive.

If you’re not feeling alive, then you need to do one of the things that you know make you feel really alive.

But there are two types of feeling alive.

The first type of alive is when you’re excited, exhilarated, feeling very happy and loving the moment.

The second type of alive is when you’re digging in, carrying on doing what you know you need to do and not giving up.

This second type of alive doesn’t feel exciting or exhilarating. It doesn’t necessarily make you feel happy or loving the moment when you’re doing it.

So how do you recognise this as feeling alive, when it’s so different from the first one?

This is where I’ve come up with the true vs. pathetic gauge.

When you’re in the excited and exhilarated alive state you know you don’t feel pathetic.

But when you’re in the dug in state, you may feel a bit pathetic.

You expected it to be much easier and it feels like very hard graft right now.

But here’s the thing.

When you’re digging in and keeping going, you have a choice, and the choice is to carry on or give up.

Out of those two options, which one will make you feel the most pathetic, and which one will make you feel like you’re being true to yourself?

If you’re being true to yourself, even if its feels like hard graft, you are very much alive!