You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™
Humans. Their needs, their wishes, their wants, their desires.
As I travel across this planet, it seems that humans want it easy.
They want people to hand them stuff.
They want people to take care of them.
They want people to wipe up after them when they make a mess.
Is hard work a lost art form?
People want to get rich, but they don’t want to work for it.
People want status, but they gotta watch Dr. Phil.
People want to be loved, but they gotta Facebook post first.
People want material things, but are they really willing to vest themselves?
That’s why the lottery is so appealing. It’s easy money.
$2 and a dream.
What happened to earning it?
I saw a Facebook quote: Change is uncomfortable.
That’s an interesting thought.
It means if you want to change the status quo, you need to get out of your comfort zone and sacrifice, take risks, go for it.
But humans are not inherently risk takers. We like our cozy bed and our slippers and warm milk before we turn in for the night.
The days of leaving the cave and fighting the Mastodon in the front yard are over.
Today is a push button, have it delivered society.
Here’s a tip: If you want it, go get it. If you need it, make it happen.
Sometimes you need life to spank you in the ass to show you which direction to go.
It’s easy to pull the blinders down over your eyes and get on assembly line of monotony and go through the motions.
Why?
Because it’s human nature.
We are creatures of habit. We like normalcy, we gravitate toward patterns. We are repulsed by chaos.
But chaos creates.
You think birth is calm.
The universe was born in the biggest explosion ever!
Stars and emptiness splattered across a void of infinite nothing.
Suddenly there was something.
It took a massive explosion of chaos to create it.
From ferocious unpredictable explosiveness comes change.
If you want comfortable, then punch the clock, stand in line, fill your soup bowl with the gruel that comes with mediocrity.
To shine, you must excel. To excel you must strive, you must force yourself beyond your scope
It’s violent launching into space. Astronauts pushed back into their seats, fire exploding all around them, gravity increasing like 10 tons of weight.
The moment the astronauts pierce the boundary, the engines cut off and they exist in a weightless zen of accomplishment.
The moral of the story is it takes thrust, and daring, and uncomfortable moments to achieve orbit on a more celestial plane.
Dare to be more. In essence, dare to dare.
Don’t settle for a bread line of mediocrity.
Pull your hand back from the hand out line and dig down deep.
Look at what you want and get after it.
You don’t get many chances to re-write the astrological chart that comes with every baby’s birth.
Cancel your ticket to ho hum and book your passport for greatness.
It’s a long journey filled with unexpected uncomfortableness.
If you want it easy, the ride will feel rough.
If you expect the ride to be uncomfortable, you might just find the road smoother than expected.
My advice: Work Harder.
I know this is not the French way, but it’s the crazy way.
It’s the American Way.
With the fourth of July upon us, we should take stock on what that holiday is about.
If you watch local TV the 4th is a chance to sell cars and mattresses at prices so low they’re CRAZY.
But it’s a celebration of freedom. It is a declaration to make life what you want life to be.
Our forefathers told England to kiss our 13 collective independent asses.
The story is long-winded and not as exciting as fireworks that now fill a night sky, but it’s all about being free, about freedom of choice, about having the power to do what we want to find happiness.
It seems that many of us on this 4th of July eve have gravitated away from the American dream, caught in a quagmire of mundane existence.
Make this 4th your personal independence day.
Embrace the uncomfortbleness and strive for a life you wish for but don’t always go after.
Remember Life’s Crazy. It’s the only one you have. Are you wasting yours?