Thursday, July 20, 2017

Nugget of wisdom

If there is one lesson I can impart to you from the totality of my short life, it is to not waste time. It's easy to be bored and allow minutes, hours, years glaze by while you whittle away your life at work or binge TV series on Netflix. God damn it, don't wake up one morning and wonder just how it is that you got so old; stop wasting time! Life's too short to do a job you hate or complain about where you are in life- change it! Change everything! Pick up your belongings and go far, take up a new hobby, go eat something you've never eaten before, change! Go volunteer at a homeless shelter, go join the merchant marines, take up music or painting or martial arts or running or fly fishing! Don't spend your life one regret after the next musing about how much time you had when you were younger, because the moment you are reading this sentence, right now, is the youngest you will be for the rest of your life. Take everything you want and everything you are and make it into everything you will be, god damn it.
You never know when your life may end. That's a fact, that's a goddamn fact, because right now there could be a sudden stroke lurking in the unknown depths of your mind, or some drunken idiot might decide that he or she can still drive despite not being able to walk in a straight line. So what in the hell are you waiting for? Money? Oh, you want to wait until you have your million or ten units of currency to pad your wallet before you go out and live your life. Guess what, people have done more with sand in their pockets. Money isn't an excuse. There isn't one. You can trudge your sorry ass to work every day, looking at all the familiar faces and sights on your commute, letting it all blur into one gloriously interminable wave of time that saps you of everything you were, or you can change. What have you seen of the world? Have you ever actually challenged yourself? Go out there. I dare you. I challenge you. See what you are truly capable of and what really sits beneath the person that everyone knows you as; show us what you think you are. Show us what you can be.

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