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When I was 18, I felt lost.
I was always searching for a neat little set of answers to the biggest questions of life. Why are we here? What do I do with my myself? How do I avoid ending up like those around me, or is everyone destined to be reactive, unhappy, and low energy? How do I make the most of this chance I’ve been given?
But no matter how many books I burned through, I couldn’t seem to find them. All I found were debates without clear conclusions, arguments from people who didn’t seem happy, and beliefs of high-conviction that didn’t seem to make sense when taken out of context.
After thousands of years on this planet, we really haven’t come up with a set of principles, values, or lessons that everyone can agree on? Is this some kind of sick cosmic joke? I mean come on… this even stems beyond life’s big questions. Seed oils. Business models. Relationship dogma. Religious teachings. Everyone is engaging in this war of concepts, and neither side is the clear winner.
It seems like evolution and entropy go hand in hand, but far beyond the physical world. We latch onto beliefs that give us a shred of clarity, preach them as the one true answer, and often refuse to change our mind when that belief inevitably falls apart.
So if there is one thing that I’ve realized, it’s that.
The only right way to live is like nobody else.
