The Pity Party
Complacency, Complaints & STFU
If you’re not complaining and legitimately pumped about life, you’re done, you’ve already won in so many ways and you should just keep killing it at whatever you do.
For many of the rest of us, we’re too “busy” thinking we’re busy, always complaining and unsatisfied. Busy is a choice. So if you choose to be busy, to work, to actually put your life, energy and attention on the line, don’t complain about it. STFU and be satisfied. Be grateful. Go build, create or do something amazing for ourself or better someone else. Complaining is a pity party of one that only eludes to the self-indulgent purpose of one’s effort. What a waste.
Instead, be obsessed with contributing more. With giving more time and energy to and for others, so they can perform at and be their best. And don’t just say it and talk a big game. Live it. Put your time, money, energy on the line for it, in those people, for those people. Own it, whatever it is you have. Project and proliferate the energy out for everyone.
We have absolutely nothing to complain about. We have every opportunity. Our culture, our demographic, our generation, our sheer luck of the place and people surrounding us of which we were born into. We have absolutely every opportunity to do anything we want, to make every day count and worthwhile living as we see fit.
And when you see it, the pity party that is the badge of “busy” just smile and wave, even help them out, give them the attention they crave and need you to recognize. Then walk away and vow to yourself to never succumb to the same. We can be better.
We can be grateful, purposeful, meaningful and happily satisfied with every moment of effort, happiness, suffering and exhaustion that we put into and take out of this incredible world we’re lucky enough to be a part of.
And when you’re all gone, when you’ve achieved everything you feel you need to live and define as “enough”, take a breath… and give it all back… and then some.
This is the world we can create. LET’S F*N GO!
Raw Thoughts…
We can either wear out or rust out, the choice is ours. I’d much rather wear out. — Theodor Rosevelt
WE WILL CREATE GOD, MAYBE…
Maybe we weren’t created from “GOD” but we may very well create it as the singularity and the universe of all things remains a possibility. Intelligence does not require consciousness and we are building more intelligence than we can consciously conceive. Although we won’t be alive to see it, we will fundamentally change the way organisms, energy and the entire universe interacts.
THE EXPERIMENTER & THE NARRATOR
We have two selves, one of experience and one of narration. The rational experiencer is binary and calculated in decision making, judging through our sensory receptors the averaged overall net effect of our circumstance. They feel the really pain, know the really impact and have minimal influence except when we’re at the edges of security. The narrator runs the show, without any sense of duration or presence. Their judgements are irrational, paced on peak or end experience, to produce and create the story we’ll tell ourselves and others for the comfort of knowing (mistakenly) why.
CONFIDENTLY SATISFIED WITH YOUR LIFE
At any point in your life, with whatever you’re doing, wherever you’re working or whom ever you’re spending your time and energy on we should be comfortable, if not excited, in saying that,”I’ll probably do this for the next 3–5 years. And I’m pretty happy about that.” And if that’s not you right now, or tomorrow, or the day after than it might be time to reevaluate. It’s your life, do what you enjoy, find purpose in and help others through; and do it with the confidence and poise that you’ll be happily committed for the foreseeable future. Otherwise, do what you’d rather be doing; and do it now.
IT’S THE TWO-THOUSAND & EIGHTEENTH YEAR
We are currently living in the two-thousand and eighteenth year of life beyond a set point in time that extends tens of thousands prior. This literally happened.
2018 years ago, humans lived in dramatically different circumstances and started counting. That is roughly 20–30 lifetimes ago, before electricity, agriculture and economics let alone technology and how many people “like” your post, page or picture.
That is utterly mind blowing to think on and attempt to comprehend everything that lead us to today, or even this century.. let along this 20th century.
There has never been a better time to be alive than today and is it crazy to think and wonder how the heck we got here. Amazing… And I don’t even want or need to know “why”.