Psst – hey, you there! Yes, you! Right there! I must ask you something. Do you have dreams? Do you still have a desire to achieve them? If so, how far will you go to achieve these dreams? Are you willing to go to extremes to achieve them? If you nod assertively to what I have just asked, perhaps you should reconsider this state of mind. Do you wish to know why? Come a little closer, and I shall tell you why. That’s it, just a little closer. Can you hear me now? Yes? Good! Desperation is a tender trap. If you are not careful and decide you will do almost anything to achieve these dreams, you might not achieve them at all. How so? Well, your actions might jeopardise your chances of ever achieving your dreams. One crummy move could set you on an entirely new course, pushing you further away from your original goal.
Does going to the extreme equate to desperation? Perhaps it does not? When you are desperate, you will find yourself going to extreme lengths to achieve these dreams. When you are not, then what use is the extreme to you? Maybe the idea of the extreme is subjective in nature, and what one person might see as extreme is not extreme to the next. Perhaps we could dig into some philosophies of life, peek behind the curtain and reveal a thought coming from a determined mindset that sets itself upon achieving something at any cost. The idea born from this is the notion that dying while attempting something great or impossible is the zest of life, along the lines of the great Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Perhaps having something you are willing to die for is to have a great purpose in life. However, it does not make it something every person can adopt at will, as many are not willing to die for a single thing.
If a person were to decide that they will push themselves to the point of destruction, is there an extreme in there somewhere? If that is the purpose of their life and all that they live for, then it is hardly an extreme, as not working towards achieving it is the same as not living and for that, they might as well be dead. Being that, either way, is equal to death, one would sooner decide to work towards something meaningful rather than nothing at all. In saying this, it would bring us to another idea of achieving something grand or die trying.
Some even elect to die for something they cannot achieve, but more so, what we consider to be ideals, principles, people, ideologies, and so on. These are beliefs, including bonds we have, that would lead us to conclude that we would fight tooth and nail for them and even lay our life down without any hesitation so we can stick behind our principles and the like.
Are these extremes? Perhaps an outside observer looking into another person’s life might draw a conclusion of that nature. However, when we consider the person themselves and their willingness to die for something, we certainly begin to see that what they are willing to die for are the exact things that have come to define their life. In fact, you can call it their very life itself, and they will be willing to put everything on the line to protect it and to be able to continue to live it the way they see fit. Nay, to live it the only way they believe it can, which is their way or no way.
Well, I could say more about extremes. However, truthfully, I doubt it would make much of a difference. If I were to have any last remarks, it would be that what we consider extremes might not be as objective as we would lead ourselves to believe, as I think they are subjective in their nature. Similar to how you decide to look at the world, it boils down to an equal mechanism: perception and our judgement that follows from said perception.
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