Two Types of People

There are two kinds of people in life: those that do and those that watch others do. More or less, there are those that make excuses and those that don’t.

Words recently shared between me and a friend:

Me: “Hey Chuck, how’s it going?”

Chuck: “Not bad, just lost in life.”

Me: “I have an idea: it’s time for you to do something new and totally unexpected.”

Chuck: “What’s that?”

Me: “Hike the California coast.”

Chuck: “But I don’t know how to start a fire.”

In life we encounter problems, bumps in the road, things that we need to address in order to overcome. Unless of course, you prefer to be dragged around aimlessly by fate.

Chuck clearly wants to make things more difficult than they actually are. He didn’t even consider the proposition that was made. He presented a problem without first considering a solution to his problem. He reacted this way because he wants things to happen easily. He finds a reason for why he can’t do something, instead of why he can. He overcomplicates things before they’ve even happened, before they even exist.

Making assumptions about things that only exist in your mind, and have yet to exist in reality, can be interpreted as insanity.

Life is surprisingly not that complicated. Something human inside of us tries to compel us to believe different. The second we realize that things aren’t so complicated, the doors open, and we can live our lives as we see fit.

That doesn’t mean things will be easy.

We have to fight for the things we want, the things that are near and dear to our hearts, the things that make us who we are.

Don’t let risk get in the way. It wears a mask. At its core, risk is merely an illusion of choice — nothing more. Though measure it with caution. It’d be mad to weigh an apple, and claim that it has the weight of two.

At the end of the day, we all start and end at the same place. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from, what you look like, etc. It’s something we all share, in which that something makes us equally human.

Sooner or later, we have to square up against a mirror, stare at ourselves, be honest, and accept what we see. In order to evolve we must accept who we are: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Do or do not. There is no try.