Today I Saw My Own Mortality

#11 Get Interested In Everyone I Meet

Think of all the people you go by in a day. All these untold stories and aspirations. What if you could create relationships with all those people, and hear all the stories.

This task can be pretty hard, but you can take small steps forwards it everyday. Today I choose to understand the drives and hopes of every person I got to encounter with.

“Everyone you meet knows something you don’t but need to know. Learn from them” — Carl Jung

The Experience

The day started out beautiful, and I got some knowledge nuggets here and there. The momentum got better for every person I meet.

Some of my favorite questions to ask are “What are you most thankful for right now?” or “What are you most excited about in your life?”. These type of questions gets you to the essence of what the person thinks a lot about.

By me being interested in the person in front of me, I want to learn more about the person. It often creates great conversations, and a number exchange.

In the other half of the day, I got nose-bleed twice. It made me wonder about life.

Right now I’m living in kind of a dream world. Where everyday is an adventure with great things to explore and create. I’m living in a kind of euphoria. It’s great.

However mother nature did not care and gave me a reality check. It was years ago since I last got a nose-bleed, yet it just happened. I also got feeling of sickness.

This made me realize how fast our well-being can change. It made me wonder about all the dreams and hopes we got in our lives. We often say we’re going to do all these crazy and wonderful things, but not today.

Lately I’ve been feeling like a ‘yes-man’ in this challenge. It has made me do some pretty great things & also scary. It’s all about taking responsibility over yourself.

How You Can Apply What I Learnt

1. When you’re talking with a person. Try to get to know them in depth, and understand what motivates them most in their life’s. Maybe it’s love or changing the world. Find out for yourself!
2. Start the process today. Don’t push your dreams into the future anymore. You don’t know when your health will decade.

This day made me realize the importance of being thankful for what you have. Also it made me realize how interesting people are. How boring they may even look, they know something you don’t. Find out what and my intuition says your life can improve.

What thrilling action are you going to make today?