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Quite poetic reading through all the replies on this thread because it quite obvious there’s something missing in your guys life yet you manage to cope by telling yourself “had I only got a different degree, made x money, or done a trade.”

The poetic part is that deep down, you really have zero idea what it is in your life you are missing so you assume surrounding yourself with materials or working long hours in at a job making 300k would somehow satiate this void inside of you.

On your deathbed, do you believe that your final thoughts would be that you wished you had worked more hours, that you wish you would have made more money, that you wish you would have partied more, done more drugs, consumed more media, lived in a bigger house or driven a faster car? Ask yourself this question with all seriousness. Think about death. I mean really ponder about the idea of death and try to understand the idea that nothing in this life is ever permanent.

Think of every popular story, one which a hero emerges. Think of the similar archetypes that emerge from them. It could be iron man, Harry Potter, the lion king, or classic literature like the odyssey, Abraham religious books, the Epic of Gilgamesh etc. and what meta-philosophy do they all share? The hero who digs deeply into oneself and over comes their fears.

Think about a Dragon, a scary reptilian creature that is omnipresent and breathes fire. It’s an amalgamation of ones inner demons. Ones personal struggle. The hero is he who confronts the dragon and slays it. You cannot protect yourself by building a bigger castle, or hiding underground, or running away forever. The hero is revealed once that head of the dragon is cut off.

Life is about the journey. To live is to suffer, but to prosper is to find meaning in the suffering. Would you rather live with plentiful wealth and many externals, but miserable in mind? Or would you rather live with plentiful virtue but no materials to your name?

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