Legacy, and Leaving Behind a Life You’d be Proud of

CM
CM
Jul 23, 2017 · 3 min read

Day 83 of 100 days of writing daily, going sober and starting a business.

Start this article by listening HERE, and scrolling through a few of the pieces I used as inspiration today. My thoughts are in caps*.

I have an immense fear of living a life of proclivity.

It’s prevented me from being happy with a normal life and instead drafting up nightmares filled with 9 to 5 jobs and suburban homes. Relationships and jobs have ended for being too normal.

I run away from steady, safe, boring.

It comes from a mix of delusional grandeur and impassable work ethic. In my life, I’ve always worked my ass off to get what I want. Perhaps it’s also in my blood to be a risk taker, a gambler but safety in it’s conventional white picket fence sense means that when I see stability, I see iron bars.

I see giving up a possibility of something wonderful happening if I chase that little dream.

My ideal life isn’t small. I want to do big things, make serious impact and really change people’s lives for the better. I strive to do it everyday in how I react with people, and simply to be happy with a simple paycheck is not for me. I don’t care how millennial spewing that sounds, it is what I feel and have felt since the very ethos of my college years.

Today, I thought about the legacy I’d like to leave, and how it is so much bigger than who I am now. I felt as if I needed to inspire myself today, and so below I am sharing a few pieces that made me think and feel closer to that person.

THINGS THAT INSPIRED ME TODAY

*HOW GOOD IT FEELS TO THINK AND LIVE IN SPACES OUTSIDE OF MYSELF.

Photo by Simon Nicoloso @ Open Doors Gallery
Photo by Ian Howorth @ Open Doors Gallery

*I FOUND MORE VALIDATION THAT THE WAY WE CONSUME CONTENT IS CHANGING. ENTER TOPIC.COM

“ We’re interested in creating an experience that’s reflective of the culture, but not reactive to it.”

— Anna Holmes of Topic.com / Neiman Lab

*EXPERIENCING LIFE’S BIGGEST FEARS & REGRETS, AND REMINDING MYSELF OF WHAT HAS TO CHANGE

*A FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEO OF MINE

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Writer. Traveler. Brooklyn, born and raised. A new article every day for 365 Days about starting a travel magazine.

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