Ask yourself how important are the goals you have set for your life

Don't waste your energy on useless and in vain activities, which it is equivalent to saying not to desire unattainable goals or that, once reached, reveal too late the inconsistency of desire.

Always try to make sure that the effort is not useless, that there is some result, possibly appropriate to the commitment made in the company.

Hence, almost always, discouragement, from not being successful or from being ashamed of the success achieved.

It is also necessary to put a limit on that continuous running here and there, from home to theater, from home to forum, as so many people who always show up do with the air of being seriously busy with someone who is really immersed in serious occupations.

If you ask one of these people, while they are leaving the house, where they are going or what they plan to do, they will reply that they have no idea. .

So they wander here and there aimlessly, looking for something to take care of but not finding it, they do not do what they had decided to do, but what happens to them. , random.

Without purpose, in disorder, they continue to fidget, like ants that climb along the trunks of the tree and reach the top, and then go back down without concluding anything .

Countless people live this way, it is no mistake who defines their existence as a restless inertia.

They are almost painful, they rush out of the house as if they were running to put out a fire, bumping into and knocking down anyone who stands in the way, they stumble themselves while struggling to greet someone who will not respond to their greeting, or follow the coffin of a person unknown to them, or sometimes a litter that they occasionally present themselves to carry.

You can find them at the trial of those who are always embroiled in some legal dispute or at the marriage of those who indulge in the pastime of getting married over and over again.

Every evening, returning home exhausted from useless tiredness, swearing that they themselves do not know why they went out and where they went, but the next day they are surely willing to retrace an identical journey.

Every effort, remember, must have a meaning and an end.

All these individuals are not kept in motion by an activity but, just like crazy people, by fictitious visions.

Even mad people seem to move with some purpose, but in reality they allow themselves to be attracted by something that has only an apparent consistency, something their mind is troubled by does not grasp emptiness.

In the same way each of these, who go out only to increase the crowd, wanders around the city aimlessly and, despite having nothing to do, leaves early and knock on the doors of several houses.

Sometimes he finds only a servant, other times no one, or he is not even opened, in any case, no one finds in the house more difficult than himself.

From this derives a horrible evil, the habit of listening to and spying on all public and private components, becoming aware of facts that it is dangerous to listen to and even more dangerous to spread.

Seneca

Automatic translation. We apologize for any inaccuracies. Original article in Italian.