I have a friend whose child is going to West Point. The kid wants to be President. How do you know at age 18 that you want to be President? So the kid is structuring his life around running for President. He stays off of social media. He takes the right classes. He makes the right friends. He’ll get the best tours of duty in the military. He’ll get out after five years, and go to Harvard Law School. He’ll start his political career. Etc. If you know when you are a little squirt that you want to be leader of the free world, you can work towards that goal. We all used to speculate that one of the guys in my Academy class had political ambitions. Narrowly missed being a Rhodes Scholar, got a patrol boat command, went to Yale Law School, became disillusioned, and now works in the private sector. My man.
This really struck a chord with me. Sometimes I feel very content with the arc of my life story, and sometimes I get panicky about accomplishing my potential. I go back and forth between spiritual/conscious evolution and BEing as present and love-based as possible because honestly I think the world needs that more than anything else, and than wanting to also be very financially successful and have the opportunities and freedoms that come with that kind of success. I don't care much about being famous, but I want to know I leaned well into my capacities of being the best version of me and having it all (walking a loving and healing path and also being materially successful), as much as I can manage in this lifetime. Thanks for inspiring me to think. And I love Rage as well
Oddly enough, I was thinking about this today while I was walking the dogs. My parents wanted me to be a doctor, with secondary options being the stock market or civil engineering, which a few of my uncles got insanely wealthy doing. My dad, on the other hand, was a traveling indy salesman who worked just hard enough to pay the bills and didn't give a fuck about what other people thought. (Drove a Ford Escort with 300k miles on it and held his loafers together with duck tape.) But holy hell did my dad have fun and take us along for the ride, which I wouldn't trade for anything. He always knew that I'd loathe the corporate world, and indeed, I went freelance the year before he died (too young, 59). Best decision I ever made. Even if it's not as lucrative as medicine, finance, or engineering, it's the way my freedom-craving brain works. What I'd give to split a bottle of Gosling's Reserve Old Rum with him now.
This really struck a chord with me. Sometimes I feel very content with the arc of my life story, and sometimes I get panicky about accomplishing my potential. I go back and forth between spiritual/conscious evolution and BEing as present and love-based as possible because honestly I think the world needs that more than anything else, and than wanting to also be very financially successful and have the opportunities and freedoms that come with that kind of success. I don't care much about being famous, but I want to know I leaned well into my capacities of being the best version of me and having it all (walking a loving and healing path and also being materially successful), as much as I can manage in this lifetime. Thanks for inspiring me to think. And I love Rage as well
Oddly enough, I was thinking about this today while I was walking the dogs. My parents wanted me to be a doctor, with secondary options being the stock market or civil engineering, which a few of my uncles got insanely wealthy doing. My dad, on the other hand, was a traveling indy salesman who worked just hard enough to pay the bills and didn't give a fuck about what other people thought. (Drove a Ford Escort with 300k miles on it and held his loafers together with duck tape.) But holy hell did my dad have fun and take us along for the ride, which I wouldn't trade for anything. He always knew that I'd loathe the corporate world, and indeed, I went freelance the year before he died (too young, 59). Best decision I ever made. Even if it's not as lucrative as medicine, finance, or engineering, it's the way my freedom-craving brain works. What I'd give to split a bottle of Gosling's Reserve Old Rum with him now.
Fuckin A Jared....
Love the articles !
Well written....thanks
Great song choice! Check out Plan B - stay too long; the rif will be familiar. (Pendulum Remix is great as well)
Trump's popularity was a function of standing up to the swamp.