I didn't copy and paste all of it, just the parts that really stood out to me. If you have some time, read this article. I cried while reading most of it. This is brilliant stuff and pretty much my philosophy on life.
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We choose a program right out of high school because the proper thing to
do is to go straight to University. We choose a job right out of
University, even if we didn’t love our program, because we just invested
time into it. We go to that job every morning because we feel the need
to support ourselves abundantly. We take the next step, and the next
step, and the next step, thinking that we are fulfilling some checklist
for life, and one day we wake up depressed. We wake up stressed out. We
feel pressured and don’t know why. That is how you ruin your life.
You ruin your life by choosing the wrong person. What is it with our
need to fast-track relationships? Why are we so enamored with the idea
of first becoming somebody’s rather than somebodies? Trust me when I say that a love bred out of convenience, a love that
blossoms from the need to sleep beside someone, a love that caters to
our need for attention rather than passion, is a love that will not
inspire you at 6am when you roll over and embrace it. “But I don’t want to be alone,” we often exclaim. Be alone. Eat alone,
take yourself on dates, sleep alone. In the midst of this you will learn
about yourself. You will grow, you will figure out what inspires you,
you will curate your own dreams, your own beliefs, your own stunning
clarity, and when you do meet the person who makes your cells dance, you
will be sure of it, because you are sure of yourself. Wait for it.
Please, I urge you to wait for it, to fight for it, to make an effort
for it if you have already found it, because it is the most beautiful
thing your heart will experience.
If you allow for every negative event in your life to outline how you
view yourself, you will view the world around you negatively.
You ruin your life when you compare yourself to others. The amount of
Instagram followers you have does not decrease or increase your value.
The amount of money in your bank account will not influence your
compassion, your intelligence, or your happiness. The person who has two
times more possessions than you does not have double the bliss, or
double the merit. We get caught up in what our friends are liking, who
our significant others are following, and at the end of the day this not
only ruins our lives, but it also ruins us. It creates within us this
need to feel important, and in many cases we often put others down to
achieve that.
There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller
magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are
important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your
mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express.
Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in
who, and how, you love. There is courage in that.
You ruin your life by tolerating it. At the end of the day you should be
excited to be alive. When you settle for anything less than what you
innately desire, you destroy the possibility that lives inside of you,
and in that way you cheat both yourself and the world of your potential.
The next Michelangelo could be sitting behind a Macbook right now
writing an invoice for paperclips, because it pays the bills, or because
it is comfortable, or because he can tolerate it. Do not let this
happen to you. Do not ruin your life this way. Life and work, and life
and love, are not irrespective of each other. They are intrinsically
linked. We have to strive to do extraordinary work, we have to strive to
find extraordinary love. Only then will we tap into an extraordinarily
blissful life.
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