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An utterly colossal paradox; An utterly cyclopean oxymoron.


A paradox is a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true; An oxymoron is a combination of contradictory or incongruous words, according to Merriam Webster dictionary. These aspects dominate our lives but what’s odd is that a preponderance of us are enormously oblivious to that fact. Most of us are running on a treadmill, while dubiously convincing ourselves that we’re moving forward.

Many of us love to sleep, but hate the alarm and death. Now that’s truly odd. It utterly makes no sense for one to love sleep so much that they would even sleep for half the day, if not the whole day, but would still fear and abhor death. We were all put on this earth to live; hence, we have lives. Lives were meant to be lived by people who have lives, but it seems like things are the opposite of that manner. Many of us fear living. We fear what people are going to think nor say, we fear failure, embarrassment and disappointments that would be possibly subsequent to our actions. 

The biggest paradox is that we live to die, but a preponderance of us fear both life and death. It is similar to leaving the roads in your neighbourhoods, to be stuck in traffic on your way to gym in order to run on a treadmill. 

That’s exactly how we are living our lives. We have shifted our main focus to our fear of execution, in lieu of our love for life. That is the reason for all this melancholy and depression that’s engulfing our world, today. 

Promiscuity is rife, these days, due to a preponderance of us being afraid to committing to the one person we love owing to our fear that they might cheat on us nor leave us for someone else; hence, we end up glorifying promiscuity because we perceive it as a form of security against all the scenarios we make up in our heads that offer us a myriad of excuses not to commit to the one person we truly love. It seems like we are a bunch of self-contradictory individuals who would rather enjoy running around in circles because we fear the mysterious results or discoveries that we might be exposed to, should we choose to open a new door nor take a certain action. We fear progress. Not taking action, is an act of fear of progress. 

No matter what the results are in your actions, but the fact that you are failing and learning from your failures, is nothing short of progress. 

Easier said, than done!

Our biggest problem, as humans, is that we expect action to be the easiest task in our lives. Everything is easier said than done, but the most important thing is doing, irregardless of whether it is easy nor difficult. 

Action is paramount. Action is a sign of life; it shows that you are full of life because only a corpse would never lift a hand to take action. In essence, being boxed into a corner of not taking action by fear means that you’re dead nor dying. 

Many of us are living a paradox, nor an oxymoron. We want to pass an exam but we seldom invest our effort in studying; we want relationships but we barely communicate with others; we want wealth but we barely sacrifice what we are emotionally attached to in order to attain what will change our lives, we preach the word of God on Sunday, but slow dance with the devil, immediately after leaving church. We want to have money but we spend more than we earn. Our current quality of life has turned us into individuals who find comfort in talking about what they want instead of getting what they want. 

We need to program our subconscious minds to develop the “do or die" mentality if we seek to eradicate this paradox and oxymoron culture that has gained possession of our lives.

Regressive progress is not progress!

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