Most people live with some kind of structure. It’s as easy as getting up in the morning, having a plan of what to do, and going to bed in the evening.
Growing up, much of this structure is held by parents who take care of organizing the meals, seeing their child go off to school, and enabling some other activities if they aren’t automatic in the neighborhood.
This structure remains present while studying and going to work. However, much of this structure is given. It’s a structure that relies on the way groups live together; individuals rely on others being available to care for them and individuals invest themselves in strengthening the group.
As society evolved, this cooperation became increasingly regulated. People go to school, work, and attend activities at a specific time. Consequently, people have become more reliant on existing structures that they can be part of. Society transformed much of this into expectations and assumptions about what individuals will do.
The necessity to earn a living and the necessary coordination with one another made this a natural event.
It’s a habit. One that often falls apart once someone steps out of that structure and finds oneself confronted with needing to organize it himself.
Instead of finding oneself in something structured, one suddenly realizes how everything can also be limitless. It opens the Pandora’s box of unquestioned questions, values, and opportunities. It’s also the moment when purpose can offer a new kind of constraint, one that one has chosen oneself. However, purpose rarely shows up when it is needed. It emerges as one starts to invest oneself in a variety of activities. When one learns to see which ones make sense. Which one creates pleasure, and which one contributes to an impact that feels important.
However, staying in a limitless space is the ideal way to become overwhelmed, to see opportunities and believe that the next one will be more interesting, and to find oneself focused on success instead of doing the work.
Limitless makes it clear that the choice is entirely ours.
