About Me — Gregory Russell Benedikt

Accruing incremental wisdom as I implement my flawed plan

As a young child, I believed in magic. I believed that one day my teacher would reveal himself to me and show me that I too, was a wizard. He would teach me to harness and hone my abilities, and to use my magical powers to change the world. I was 100% sure that this would happen because as I looked around at how the adults were living, I knew that there had to be more to life.

Years went by and my teacher still hadn’t revealed himself. Yet I couldn’t shake the feeling that there had to be more! As I looked at how most people were living their lives, I refused to accept that this is how life was supposed to be. I saw people selling their time and health in order to make money. They were wildly unhappy and were choosing a lifestyle based solely on how much money it paid them.

I saw empty human shells going through the motions — like automated robots — working jobs that they hated in order to buy expensive stuff. Stuff they didn’t even need, in an attempt to impress people that they didn’t even like.

I quickly realized that I was not the first person to think this way, and I stumbled across two quotes that conveyed exact observations:

“Too many people spend money they haven’t…