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I know there has been a lot of chatter from the "I am rich don't need to work, so I am depressed as f*ck because life has no meaning". I hear that message and I accept it to be true for those who write it. But it's not true for me.
I was up at 5AM today (as usual) and got busy. If I am the best of me, my life has meaning. My family will watch me, my friends, my offspring - anyone willing to watch should get some benefit. If you meet me, I want you to walk away 1% better than you were before meeting me. Goggins is another level, but we share similar world view. There are no record pull ups in my future, I have no interest in that. That's because we have different paths.
If my example helps a few people, even if briefly - my life was meaningful. And yeah, I hear you all - we are but specs of dust in the universe. 100 years from now there may not be a USA, let alone me in the memory of people.
It's not about that. Life is short. I commit to living it, not existing as part of it. Living is an action. Loving someone is active too. And in all that I find deep meaning.
Thanks for sharing @MTF - Goggins is the man! I'll be buying his book as soon as it comes out.
Your posts on this topic have been slowly but stubbornly digging into my brain. Today I decided to start working on a little new project you may find interesting (I'll post about it when it's ready).
I have this deep, strange love/hate connection with discomfort. I never really considered it that much of an example for others as I'm doing it entirely for myself. But it actually does affect other people.
A couple of weeks ago a friend visited from another city and I organized a trip so that he could try freediving. He was very uncomfortable with the thought but was open to the challenge (perhaps because of how I was stubbornly selling it to him).
Seeing him experience it and then talking with him afterward completely pumped up, extremely proud of himself and excited by exploring a new world (and I imagine a new part of his inner world, too), I was very grateful for playing this little role in his life.
It's a fleeting moment and a meaningless experience in the grand scheme of things but who cares. It matters now.
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