"One day everything will be beautiful and perfect, and you'll have everything you ever wanted."
- me
I think it is of utmost importance to convince yourself that this is true and to live like this is true. There's no reason to believe it is, but there's no reason to believe it isn't either. There is no harm in it, only good, only peace. You're not going to get to One Day and realize that it was never true, because One Day is always in the future--so far in the future that all things are possible.
You gotta live your life like a dog, following a master who is dangling a steak. The dog looks pretty stupid, being tricked to follow this steak that he can't ever get--but it's not true that he can't ever get it. He will get it when master decides to give it to him. He believes when he gets to where master wants him to be, master will give him that steak. He's not thinking about whether or when he's going to get it; he's only focussed on the possibility, even inevitability that he will. He knows if he doesn't follow master, he certainly won't get the steak--so he follows because he knows if he wants it there is nothing to do but follow.
"If you think too much about what you're doing and what you should do, you waste too much time thinking about it and spend too little time doing it."
- my friend
One Day is that steak. Don't think about following it; just do it. Go with the flow, wherever it leads you. Just keep going towards the steak. Don't think about the other things you could be doing or should be doing. One day master will give it to you. Master is the grand design--destiny, whatever you wish to call it. One Day, you'll look around, and nothing will be as you expected or hoped--but you will realize that, despite that, you do indeed have all you ever wanted.
The steak doesn't represent any particular goal whatsoever. It's the reward at the end of the journey. Don't go around walking with preconceived notions about what the reward will be. It's a surprise. Just know that it will come, and it will be worth it. Do it because there's nothing else to do. Pass the A-1.
- me
I think it is of utmost importance to convince yourself that this is true and to live like this is true. There's no reason to believe it is, but there's no reason to believe it isn't either. There is no harm in it, only good, only peace. You're not going to get to One Day and realize that it was never true, because One Day is always in the future--so far in the future that all things are possible.
You gotta live your life like a dog, following a master who is dangling a steak. The dog looks pretty stupid, being tricked to follow this steak that he can't ever get--but it's not true that he can't ever get it. He will get it when master decides to give it to him. He believes when he gets to where master wants him to be, master will give him that steak. He's not thinking about whether or when he's going to get it; he's only focussed on the possibility, even inevitability that he will. He knows if he doesn't follow master, he certainly won't get the steak--so he follows because he knows if he wants it there is nothing to do but follow.
"If you think too much about what you're doing and what you should do, you waste too much time thinking about it and spend too little time doing it."
- my friend
One Day is that steak. Don't think about following it; just do it. Go with the flow, wherever it leads you. Just keep going towards the steak. Don't think about the other things you could be doing or should be doing. One day master will give it to you. Master is the grand design--destiny, whatever you wish to call it. One Day, you'll look around, and nothing will be as you expected or hoped--but you will realize that, despite that, you do indeed have all you ever wanted.
The steak doesn't represent any particular goal whatsoever. It's the reward at the end of the journey. Don't go around walking with preconceived notions about what the reward will be. It's a surprise. Just know that it will come, and it will be worth it. Do it because there's nothing else to do. Pass the A-1.
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