My great life adventure. I think if you say that to many people, they will think you’re mad. What do you mean?
My great life adventure. All I have to do is to finish high school, go to university, get a job, meet Mr. and Mrs.
Wright. You know the line. Save some money, have some children, retire and, of course, inevitably die.
But this is not real in our age any longer, is it? Now, to be fair, we do live in a somewhat boring time for many people. The Internet has made absolutely everything accessible, the good and the bad.
You want to travel anywhere? Go to the Internet and you can see it virtually. Not really, of course, but virtually.
And herein lies the problem I feel. Because this is all in the exterior world. It’s not me.
Because I live inside my private self. Now, some of us, of course, maybe about 40% have no inner thoughts, so I can’t speak to these people. I can only talk to the people that have an inner dialogue.
A little man in the box, if you will, talking to him or her all the time. Now, this private side deeply desires an adventurous life.
It does not want conformity. Now, we quickly get tricked, don’t we, into the age of comparison. I’m smaller than someone else.
I’m bigger than the other. He’s richer than me. She’s better looking than me.
It just goes on, right? But in reality, comparisons are extremely false, because the only person I really have to compare me to is me. Take in the data from the exterior world, the knowledge that people are readily will impart to me.
Our professors, our teachers, our mentors, our parents. Many people will give us their thoughts on life and how to live. But ultimately, once again, who is my real teacher?
Of course, it is me. I must be willing to take those thoughts inside myself. And when I’m about 18 or 20 years old, gaining consciousness, I’m forced to say, Why am I here?
What’s my mission? And what happens when I leave here? These are three fundamental questions, I feel, to living an integrated life.
So, I’m here to complete a task, and I have to find out what that task is. And with my notebook, of course, as I’ve said many times, I learn to write to myself, and I truly believe Dr.
Frankel, from Man’s Search for Meaning, he believes that you truly will find that mission. What you’re supposed to do to live that spectacular, spectacular, interesting life, because you’ve been given a gift of life.
The other day, you know, there was an enormous cockroach in the kitchen. I think I mentioned that before.
And I didn’t kill her, because in a way I felt extremely sorry for her, because with the antenna going, it was as if she was saying, this is anthropomorphic, I know, but as if she was saying, why are you a man and I’m a cockroach?
How did this happen, right? How did this happen? So how do I live my so-called great life adventure?
Well, I must live authentically. I love this word, authentically. But what could this possibly mean?
First and foremost, I must define what I’m about. What do I stand for? So I claim that I stand for critical thinking and time.
This is what I’m all about, right? That is my core value that’s been with me for over 23 years. And then in this, you must find some style.
I mean, don’t be bland. Stand out. What makes me 100 percent plus?
We live in a world, everyone’s good-looking for the most part. Everyone has good teeth. Dentistry has done a good job.
Right? Good families, loving families. So what makes me unique?
100 percent plus can only be my personal brand, my essence, my substance that I obviously nurture. And I have to take the inner self out into the world. This is part of my authenticity.
I need some discipline. I have to give myself a daily routine. Whatever that is, and I think I’ve mentioned, I get up in the morning, I make a coffee, I make my bed, I say my prayers, I write in my notebook, I shave, have a shower.
Every day. And obviously, if you don’t have values, that you don’t have any thoughts about what to do, but if you do have values, you must be consistent.
Very important. So if you’re well dressed, always be well dressed in public, or be cautious with how you dress, right?
I remember many years ago, my wife was working in an optical shop, and one day we were renovating a house that we owned, and we were really dusty. We thought, well, let’s just quickly pop into McDonald’s for a moment.
And in McDonald’s, we’re sitting there having a Big Mac or whatever, and one of her clients saw her. Now, my wife was a good looking woman, but this day she was quite disheveled and her hair was a bit musty, and the man was really taken aback.
I guess he was attracted to her beauty. And she then caught this and she said, Oh, we’re renovating. Oh, that made everything fine.
But I thought to myself, Wow, isn’t that interesting how this man is willing to analyze a person just based on their physical presence at this time. And you do to really cultivate that self, of course, you do need your moments of solitude, don’t you?
You got to learn to talk to yourself as unpleasant as it is, you know? And then most of us don’t like our own native voice, but it is necessary, isn’t it? Got to be natural with the way you speak.
So all of those, I think, ultimately lead us on a great life adventure. And many people say that I should also be modest with my talents, humble before God and modest before my fellow man.
And there are people that have a bit of bravado when they speak. They tell you about the beauty of their girlfriend and the amount of money they have, the car they own. Means nothing in the real world, right?
Means nothing at all. Nothing at all, because you have to be willing to step out and take a chance on you. You know, in any great adventure, in a certain way, you have a mission, but you’re not quite your 100 percent.
How you’re going to pull it off. And I think that’s part of your charm, in a sense, is that you are an active human being, aren’t you? You really are, I think, a part of.
Your mission is to also convey joy. Smile at people. Open a door occasionally, right?
So, try this experiment for 21 days.
Each and every day, try to remind yourself to do a small act of kindness.
And that act of kindness is building your karma, if you will, and it is taking you further along your adventurous path to where you’re going, and really develop in your mind, I think, the image of some type of heroic figure, because that’s you.
You are the net sum of your thoughts. There is no question, right?
One of the great, I guess, tragedies of life, in a sense, is like I was alluding to earlier, is that a lot of people don’t know that this consciousness that they possess, at least a little bit of, is pretty special. And one day, it will end.
And as you get older, you are more aware of the time that you occupy, for sure. And many people seemingly are not. But that said, you still have to encourage people to find this elusive sense of joy.
Aristotle tells us that all of us have the potential to be happy. But happy is not finding that treasure load. Happiness is opening and developing yourself on the way.
So think to yourself, how am I going to live my great life adventure? It’s important. Have some fun with this piece of life.
And you know what they say. You know what they say. Critical thinking is necessary, especially when you’re living your great life adventure and critical thinking is great, truly great.
You take care. God bless. Bye bye.