There Is No Spoon

There Is No Money

“Do not try and bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth…there is no spoon. Then you will see it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself”. — Spoon Boy

For some reason when I woke up today, I was thinking about this scene from the Matrix. And as I was trying to make sense of my half-a-dream thoughts, my half-a-reality worries creeped up from the back of my mind.

There I was. Thinking of all the goals I want to achieve (lets call these spoons I want to bend), and of all the challenges that keep me from achieving them (the fact that spoons require a physical force applied to them to be bent). My reason are on the lines of not having enough time or money. And I find myself trying to find ways to make the most of my time and money. Even though these optimizations ultimately have nothing to do with my goals. And this inner-child monk is trying to tell me what I was doing wrong.

The inner-child monk in me was trying to tell me that I shouldn’t try to optimize time or money in order to achieve a goal, that’s impossible. Instead, I should only try to realize the truth… there is no time or money. Then I will see it as not the time or money that needs to be optimized, it is only myself.

I guess once a person gets it into their minds that they are capable of doing something, not even reality (or the physics behind it) can stop them from doing it.

Then as I started writing this post I was watching a Casey Neistat video where he spoke about what he thinks when people call him a sellout, even though he succeeded making his dreams a reality. He gives a background on how he started from the bottom (high school dropout raising a kid at 16) and now he is one of the biggest Youtubers out there. The video starts with him burning money!!! Way to show that money ain’t a thing!