I spoke against optimism in place of realism.
I spoke against scepticism in place of possibility, which is just pessimism and defeatism.
I spoke for philosophically fundamentally positive attitude to existence
I also spoke for seeing more “negative” as your perception improves
I want to once again stress it, if it’s not yet clear:
-You being ALIVE is reason enough to “be happy”
-You being ALIVE in this time and age is reason enough to consider yourself immensely fortunate
-IN THE SAME TIME you really should be doing more, should be doing better, should be more serious
-And you fail to appreciate just how FUCKED you are, FUCKED the world is
-And the reason you should be doing more is precisely because that’s what REALITY calls for
-And the reason you should be doing more is precisely because THAT’S the meaning of BEING ALIVE
Too often we espy but half the picture:
“you can be happy right now, without acquiring more physical and psychological shit” — you take it as a permission to get idle, to DO less, to relax
or you learn that WORK can bring you more of the outcomes that you wanted — and now you believe your happiness SOLELY hinges on the outcomes of your work
We espy half the picture, we understand half the truth
It’s not the outcome of your work which brought you happiness. It at best cured part of your unhappiness, by solving your most immediate problems,
What brought you happiness when you worked was that YOU WERE ALIVE
You were ACTIVE therefore you LIVED
You exercised your POWER therefore you LIVED
It made you feel good as a side effect
Because happiness is a side effect of living
Now, AGAIN. Doing MORE will not make you MORE happy
DOING MORE is what you realise you MUST DO as you get more serious
Doing MORE is the ONLY WAY of doing things.
ELEVATION is the way of living.
It’s a mindset
It is the DEFAULT
Just like happiness is the default
So you DO MORE because it is the default, and in that default you get HAPPINESS by default
And you do EVEN MORE if the situation calls for it
Because doing that which the situation calls for is the ONLY way of doing things
Problems are MEANT to be solved
To be alive means to survive — and then to THRIVE
It doesn’t mean to encounter problems, give up and fucking die
Living life is overcoming and then WINNING
Problems are a springboard for you to jump from
And make no mistake, the situation DOES call for it
It calls more for it than the optimists can see, in their optimism-delusion
And it calls more for it than the pessimists can see, since all pessimists and sceptics are myopic and great at talking but not so much at problem-solving
There as AS MANY THINGS FUCKED UP TODAY AS EVER
There is as much opportunity to make this world a better place as ever
It’s better than ever,
But there’s STILL as much opportunity to make it better as ever
And the alternative is NOT attractive
It may be less gruesome than for the most of human history — but it is instead a slow comfortable death of the hypnotised modern slave
Therefore I really have bad news for most men I meet — they are not doing enough — and their life WILL NOT BE SO GREAT
It will NOT be as great as they imagine
It will likely be WORSE
This is just the reality
The reality they refuse to face, optimists or pessimists all the same
And likewise I meet way too many men who just refuse to realise the HAPPINESS is right here right now, and it hinges solely on what they choose to do today
And MOST RARELY of all do I meet someone who is both utterly happy today — and yet moves through life with such intensity as though the world is on fire
The world is on fire
The world is on fire
It’s not pessimism, it’s just reality
You have received a gift and I want you to be happy for it
But I also want you to make the most out of it
So BE more happy today
AND do more today