Greatness and Random

Meet 'Greatness' and 'Random', friends or enemies we have all met in life..

In order to be great in life you have to give up the need of wanting to be random in whatever it is you do. Random feeds on the need of a 40 hours’ work week; randomly picked because it pays the bills, keep the risk level low in whatever new activities you undertake and at least have one child before you reach the age of 30. In order to achieve greatness, it requires to sacrifice these and many other random needs in life.

 Greatness requires hard work, analysing, active participation and accepting every challenge which contains the highest amount of risk. Greatness requires activities outside the mainstream thoughts and random life inside the box. The box of Random has four walls a ceiling and a floor. Greatness on the other hand requires wings, the sky as the limit, no floor to break your greatness on and most definitely no walls that could ever limit your vision.

Greatness has no home. Home is seen as a tacit concept which may vary from one great achievement to another. Home is seen as limiting due to its bounding counterparts which carries the risk of boxing the amount of greatness in life.  Where greatness on the one hand is very well aware of random, random on the other hand has little if no awareness of greatness and its responsibilities. The amount of work, passion and sacrifices are unknown and untouchable for random. Random lives with easy satisfaction mediocre accomplishments and a mainstream way of living.

However, nobody ever promised that greatness befriends happiness. Greatness sometimes cuts of friends, loved ones and many joyful moments, which are seen as limiting their greatness factor in life. Fact is, at the end of the day it's hard to define or measure the level of Greatness and Random's happiness. Who is to say when one is happy? Random that doesn't shimmer in life, yet has the privilege to, almost every day, go to bed as a peaceful and content person? Or greatness that is tired half the time and works much harder to feel that same satisfaction weeks later?

The question remains: which path do we choose, random or greatness and what could make us truly happy?