We human beings are 100 percent committed every waking moment of our lives.
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Most of us think our lives would work better if we were more committed. The problem isn't our degree of commitment but what we are actually committed to. It may be very uncomfortable to admit that we are not always committed to what we know would be best for us, and to quit blaming circumstances, fate, parents, or some personal shortcoming.
In a way it's sort of a rhetorical splitting of hairs, but it offers, I think, a fresh perspective on what I and so many others view as a personal inability to commit to the things that we want to do and the people that we want to be. So where I've been kind of lazy at work over the last few months, it's not because I lack the commitment to working hard, to doing things I don't particularly enjoy in order to get ahead, it's because I've been committed to skating by on the least amount of effort required. And where I've been mostly unable to approach women that catch my eye, it's not because I lack a commitment to setting my dignity to the side and just talking to them, it's because I possess a commitment to staying in my comfort zone.
Like I said, it's splitting hairs, because it's merely turning a duality on its head, but it still gives me pause. I think it's because the basic message is that we don't fail to reach our destination because we lack the ability to start walking the path, but rather we fail because it turns out we've been walking all along but in the wrong direction. Sometimes it turns out we've been walking in circles.