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This is it.

The journey between birth and death.

It’s happening to you right now.

It has meaning, if you pay attention.

But that meaning won’t be found by desperately scrolling through a social media algorithm.

The world of plastic lights and megabytes obfuscates the true nature of reality.

Endless dopamine makes you a slave to the digital overlord and you’re entertaining yourself to death.

Distracted, you fail to achieve the things you know you’re capable of achieving.

You numb the pain with alcohol.

And the only people who will associate with you are losers who ruin your mind with the parasitic infection of groupthink.

And you never experience what life is truly meant to be.

Not as far as I can tell.

And then there’s those who seek meaning through fighting ‘the enemy’.

But this too is a hollow pursuit.

How many dead bodies will make you satisfied?

Genghis Kahn couldn’t stop.

Because the reality is that the enemy is internal, and no amount of annihilation will satiate your blood lust.

Solzhenitsyn said that the battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

And Jung said that no tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

This means that our enemy is not the person on the other side of the political aisle, or across the border.

It is incumbent on us to confront and tame the evil inside of us.

If we fail to do so, we’re at risk of losing control of the shadow and subjecting the world to its unbridled manifestations.

And that’s where the meaning is: in developing your own character.

Spend time by yourself to find out what is truly real, and what you truly think.

Then let yourself be burned by the fire of risk.

This is the only way to progress beyond the surface-level existence you’re currently living.

And the time to do all of this is now.

Urgency is imperative.

You can’t let your time be monopolised by trivial pleasures.

Or a tyrannical overlord.

Brutal, ruthless control over your schedule is required.

And laser focus on the tasks which move you closer to greatness.

You overestimate what you can achieve in a year, but underestimate what you can achieve in ten.

What are you waiting for?