There is so much attention played on achievement, right from an early
age. Doesn't matter what age and doesn't matter even what level
of achievement. It is more doing something, and making sure that doing achieves something that others can recognise - that others say "You achieved this thing".
So, you are directed to achieve from an early age. Is it sociological or is it biological? Do we have to achieve to simply stay alive - at least when we are young - we have to achieve to learn and to thrive and to grow? Probably, probably not!
How much do we know there/here? But whatever it means, this may not be the case when we are older. We are imbued with having to achieve but at some point in life - earlier, or later - we sometimes (is that always?) decide that achievement does not matter any longer. We don't care about achieving any longer - we just want to live and get from one day to
another. And so we don't strive to achieve and therefore we don't achieve.
And following on from that level of on-achievement, nothing happens. And we feel like nothing happens.
We have then the lack of an expectation of achieving something, which leads to the lack of action with respect to achievement, which leads to the lack of achievement, which then reinforces the lack of an expectation for achievement.
A nice loop indeed.
Does this mean, that from a certain point (in time, in life) - there is just that rather gradual, nice, slow decline to a quiet death?
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