Get out of hustle culture right now to live longer and happier

It is important we define our priorities at the earliest-stage-possible of our life. The earliest for you is, today, right now. Define the priority, write it on a piece of paper and forget what your elders told you. Forget where you were running towards. Forget the hard work you have put in building your today. Forget the money you poured in. Forget all of it, and get back to living according to your priorities.

If you are not happy — restart. You are not late.

Pakistan and the rest of the World

Pakistan, is a developing nation. We believe in Western culture to some extent. It is obvious; better and bigger roads, well-refined welfare systems and stable economies. We do not know a way very different than what West promotes.

We have become a victim of Western Media propagating Hustle Culture.

In Pakistan, we believe, it is important to first make sure we have security to some extent. We will first secure a Job, then we secure a rank, and then we secure a good retirement package. And one day we wake up, Cursing West.

It is not because of Media, entirely. Mostly, it is our Fear. This phenomenon of “imposing limits on ourselves” is hurting us a lot. Limits such as: —

1. Our actions can’t change much.

2. We are a poor country and we can not afford much risk.

3. Excelling in career is the only way we can win stability.

4. I alone am nothing. Because our system is being controlled by a bigger force.

5. Allah will fix it for us. We are only supposed to deliver His message.

These are limits which define our extent of Freedom. If you can re-write your priorities, you can re-define your limits also.

We need to set our directions straight

Most youngsters are failing today. Depression is hitting us hard. Young employees are dying of heart attack. And we are collapsing every second. This is a stage where we need to set our directions straight.

Get out Right Now

I can not emphasise on it any more.

You do not have to worry, be afraid or live under somebody’s else’s rules. You are a free person. And if you think, some rules, or contracts, limit your freedom, you are wrong. Only your fear limits you.

1. Get out of fear of losing, right now.

2. Draw your priorities in your life.

3. Place relationships at the top.

4. Place your health at 2nd.

5. Place your comfort and luxury at the last.

Do not work, do not run, do not sweat — if you were doing it for somebody else.

Get back on your feet. Fight your fear right now. Run on your own beaten road. Grow guts to fight your fear yourself. Fight what you thought was yours and somebody else took it from you. Straighten up a little.

Worst? Become an outcast, if this is what it takes, to win back the lost freedom.

What comes right after you take action ?

The next thing, that comes, is happiness. Honestly, the day you find out, it was not money that brought you comfort but the power to change yourself right now, that day you become happy. Truly and fulfilled. It turns the tides for you and you start building your own world from ground up.

I am telling you from my personal experience of building techshek community. It is a platform where I do what I love. Inside this territory, I dance, I chat, I talk, I make friends and I at no point stop living. This community gives me the power to breathe good and laugh good-er.

I do not find serene outside this belief I have discovered over my failures : —

“I have the ability to change the course of my life the way I want, where I want, how I want, at any moment of my life”.

Addictions are out, bad habits are out, poverty is out and success is out. Inside this circle, I am roaming happy.

If you want to be happy, you do not need money, you only need good riddance of your bad habits. You do not need hard work to get rid of these actions that drag you down. You need the ability to Stop when you are tired. The ability to relax when you feel you are burdened. The ability to feel Ok when you know the losses are taking you down and deep inside you believe — you are going to get back on your feet.

Conclusion

Ask me! Life is not hustle. It is easy. You can watch movies all day long. Or you can go for a picnic trip to North. But at no point of time, Life is not “Not Fun”.

The Hustle culture of the West is finding its ways into our "desi" society. We are unable to think rational and we are overburdening ourselves un-necessarily. Bigger bags to school, bigger brief-cases to offices, and bigger plans / spread sheets / power point presentations are breaking us really bad.

These are false lies. These are only demanding in an old-age, worn out and a pathetic culture. Such burden does not bring creative ideas and easy solutions or sober livings. These do not fix anything.

The only fix to a happy society, is calmness, good health, silence and private circle of your own. Build these circles where no one is allowed to enter, and you stand out “happier” in your choice of crowd.