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Today is Thursday. Tomorrow is Friday. Even when you complete a week, it just starts again. You complete a year and it starts over. You do a job and the next day, it needs doing again. You get your hair cut, pay your taxes, mow the lawn, and buy groceries. But then, before you know it, you've got to do it all again. Nothing gets finished. The only thing you can put your finger on is that one day follows the next follows the next. Your job is to keep turning the pages.
You are not your body or where you live or who you know, or even who you are.
You are what you choose to be.
If you do nothing, you are nothing.
Some people's absence would matter more than others.
If you had been removed from history's equation, how different would the lives of those around you be?
If the answer is "not that much," then you're doing it wrong.
Time ticks on, and you're only here...
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During your assignment in life, you're going to achieve some results and some outcomes. You're going to impact some people. Stir some shit up.
At the end of a full, well-lived life, if you're moved by someone's death, it's not usually because you regret the absence of another person's physical presence. It's usually because you attach meaning to what that person did, and what they left behind.
My point was that if you ever want to live the time you have to live, you need to get over yourself. All eyes are not on you. Nobody
will care if you try something and fail.
The point of that post was that since the Great Intelligence isn't watching your every move and waiting for you to screw up so that it can mock you, you might as well stop asking for permission to do that thing you want to do.
