Hello, Mr. Zubatou.
In Buddhism, it is called “cause and effect,” but in all of this world, the results of current actions will always lead to the next action.
If the merit you are referring to is money, goods, or something convenient for you, then if you don't change your way of thinking a little, your world will become smaller and smaller at this rate.
Narrowing means, in other words, that the benefits will also disappear.
There are many people in the world who suddenly succeed and seem to be living wealthy lives.
However, those people must have accumulated more things than people can imagine, in places where they can't see it.
That might be the case with studying, and maybe so would socializing.
I've been diligently doing things in my own way that seem plain at first glance.
I've been taking everything in front of me seriously.
It is only when we have such steady accumulation that we are blessed with good luck.
Instead of taking hardships as hardships, once you recognize hardships as commonplace, you won't feel any pain there.
For example, try to clear your favorite game over and over again.
At times like that, you probably don't even think you're struggling.
Even this is very painful when viewed by people who don't like games that much.
“Luck” is written as “hagobu.”
Luck is when actions are carried “to places commensurate with actions.”
In other words, this is cause and effect.
What we have done diligently will come to fruition.
It's hard to do this, but the rewards for the hard work are huge.
Things in the world are like that.
If you want to enjoy a good view from the observation deck on the top floor of a building, you have to build a building.
To build a building, you must acquire land.
If you don't level the ground, build scaffolding, pour concrete, make shapes, and make stairs, you won't even be able to install an elevator.
Everything is happening at the same time as the process.
I've seen a lot of people who won the lottery, sold their ancestral land, and suddenly got a lot of money and shook their lives to the wheel.
There can be no success without a process.
If you think about everything in terms of profit and loss, everything that comes to you will also come to you as the target of profit and loss.