This is on How Life Is

Sure, I could have made the title a little less "basic" than this is on how life is, but that title articulates what I am going to write about in this article in the fullest sense and way. Life is time and existence combined into many situations both good and bad, and the good and bad is mainly our perception of the situations. Now sure, I could say that reality is concrete no matter what the perception like most writers would. But, positive and good perception is one key to creating power in yours or the lives of anyone. Sure, it sounds like inverse paranoia, as the great writer W. Clement Stone once talked about in his works and it is indeed. When you think about reality and bypass the illusion of things not working realistically no matter what, you can see the good in genuinely anything through patience, understanding and tolerance. This principle may not be clear to you yet, but I will make it abundantly clear in the next few paragraphs.

Life to be good must be repetitively done in a good way to be made good. Good does not just automatically happen, nor does bad or evil. In short, all situations have to be worked at. If they are not, you just get the "default" or given which may or may not be what you want or need. Sure, this sounds like the "winning is everything" school of thinking and it is. But add an extra word to it: Genuine winning is everything. Without the word genuine in this case, meanings are not clear, and winning any way you can is what that could mean. Genuine gives it the genuine meaning I intend for this article to have. For clarity gives life power in all things. Indeed, if it is not clear, clarify it for yourself. Sure, I did my best, but I still want my readers to figure some things out productively, realistically and honestly. This article is on how life is, I am presenting it to you to be sure, but, it is up to you to run with it.

The lie of success is that it looks effortless, and it is not effortless in reality. For, the biggest and most genuine successes put out the most genuine smart and hard effort, in that order. I mean by smart effort, using their resources in the best ways they creatively can and an openness to using them that much better through consistent growth. Even if it is growth from the back of the line to the front of the line in a line for dinner or for accomplishment. We all start from zero, and use our resources individually to get where we are going, good or bad.

Sure, I could make all of this sound "nicer." But could I? There are no shortcuts, except the long way that uses objective thinking, growth and honesty to do what we all need to do in the most genuine sense. That may sound long winded, but avoidance is the real long winded approach in this case. You cannot avoid some type of productive effort, no matter how hard you try. They say life is a game to be serious about. This is where you start, figuring out how life is and acting accordingly, appropriately and in a workable way that genuinely works.

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.