This accurately sums up my feelings on Fridays:
Bring on the weekend. Much packing to be done. Much cleaning to be done before leaving on vacation. I will say there is nothing more liberating than the outdoors. Just being outside near a camp fire with no modern technology (aside from a radio), will be the most welcome thing I've done in the past 2 years.
Need to disconnect more often. I find myself looking at Facebook/social media in general and getting down on myself for wanting what others have achieved, even though what I've achieved is just as great in my eyes. It forces one to look at their life and wonder "what if". What if I never met the people I did in high school, would my entire life be different? Would I have been able to keep focused on school? What if my shoulder never seperated in high school and I would have continued my wrestling career with my scholarship?
I've recently found myself being able to seperate myself from those questions. Social media is a way to slowly poison the mind it seems. It wasn't even conscious thoughts, it is more of a subconscious thing. I now take life at face value. I do what I can with what I have. Self reliance is an under appreciated trait these days. I see many people who are unable to sever the ties that allow one to become a self reliant person, and wonder what makes them so different from myself. Why was I able to do the things I've done? No one really gave me a kick in the ass to make me do so. When doing a self inventory of myself, I realize I'm only 25 years old. Some times I don't give myself enough credit. Who cares if I'm broke as a joke at the end of every month?
"Money isn't real George. It doesn't matter. It only seems like it does."
"Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on."
How fucking true it is. I feel as though society tries to shove it down our throat that the only way to be happy is to have a fat bank account. The grass isn't always greener on the other side. It's what you perceive it to be on your own side. Make it what you want, with what you have. For me it's an ongoing battle. It can't just be a passing thought, it has to be reinforced when doubt it raised. I don't care if I have to tell myself it every single day. Drill it into my brain. Hammer it home. Life is too short to ask what if, I'd rather be asking what now. It seems much more liberating and easy-going. No dwelling on the past, it isn't worth it. Man up, handle your shit, do the best you can to the best of your ability.
Bring on the weekend. Much packing to be done. Much cleaning to be done before leaving on vacation. I will say there is nothing more liberating than the outdoors. Just being outside near a camp fire with no modern technology (aside from a radio), will be the most welcome thing I've done in the past 2 years.
Need to disconnect more often. I find myself looking at Facebook/social media in general and getting down on myself for wanting what others have achieved, even though what I've achieved is just as great in my eyes. It forces one to look at their life and wonder "what if". What if I never met the people I did in high school, would my entire life be different? Would I have been able to keep focused on school? What if my shoulder never seperated in high school and I would have continued my wrestling career with my scholarship?
I've recently found myself being able to seperate myself from those questions. Social media is a way to slowly poison the mind it seems. It wasn't even conscious thoughts, it is more of a subconscious thing. I now take life at face value. I do what I can with what I have. Self reliance is an under appreciated trait these days. I see many people who are unable to sever the ties that allow one to become a self reliant person, and wonder what makes them so different from myself. Why was I able to do the things I've done? No one really gave me a kick in the ass to make me do so. When doing a self inventory of myself, I realize I'm only 25 years old. Some times I don't give myself enough credit. Who cares if I'm broke as a joke at the end of every month?
"Money isn't real George. It doesn't matter. It only seems like it does."
"Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on."
How fucking true it is. I feel as though society tries to shove it down our throat that the only way to be happy is to have a fat bank account. The grass isn't always greener on the other side. It's what you perceive it to be on your own side. Make it what you want, with what you have. For me it's an ongoing battle. It can't just be a passing thought, it has to be reinforced when doubt it raised. I don't care if I have to tell myself it every single day. Drill it into my brain. Hammer it home. Life is too short to ask what if, I'd rather be asking what now. It seems much more liberating and easy-going. No dwelling on the past, it isn't worth it. Man up, handle your shit, do the best you can to the best of your ability.
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2. Celtic brought this song back.
3. There are a lot of "what ifs" in life, and sometimes I wish we had a Mr. Destiny (good movie) type experience to see what would have happened if things were different, but they aren't. Success is all relative. Read outliers, it's not just the person, it's essentially chance, their situations, personal experiences and eleventy billion things that are out of their control. You wouldn't be you if you had not had all the shit happen to you that already did. You can be the smartest person in America and not be Bill Gates, but instead be on a ranch with horses sitting there doing nothing.
4. I think there is a perception by most (from the outside looking in) that money can deliver happiness, but those that have it, or have more of it, or whatever would probably tell you differently. I think there is also a difference if you work for it as well, or "earn it" in someway rather than being born into it --- but that also creates its own problems.
Remember the discussion we had about how one's problems aren't necessarily greater than another because to them the problem is still as great as the person you are judging them against even if on a scale they don't match up.
We could all be billionaires and never have to work again, and go to Greenland every year and all of these things and while all of those things would be fucking amazingly awesome at the end of it I don't think it brings true happiness, and can actually bring up a whole host of problems (who can you trust? who is real and who is fake? etc)