Tom Ganks
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What did you want to be when you were young? This may seem far-fetched to ask, but at one point in your youth, you may have been determined (even just a little) to reach that goal. Lawyer, Doctor, Astronaut, inventor, business man, etc... You probably even looked forward to college along the way. You may be in it now, or you may not. But have your views on your old goals change? Under such stress and imperfections in your life, have you given up on those goals? To what petty excuses have you conjured to justify the time you've wasted giving up? Many elders are asked what regrets they have about what they have done in their lives, and they say "it's not what I've done, it's what I have not".
Many times throughout your lives, you may have heard the expression "life's too short". You see, I look at my life in fractions. I recently turned 20, a fifth of my life if I'm lucky, and I look back on the time I've used. Little to nothing to brag about. Has my life been worth the thousands of pounds of garbage I've left on this world? Is it worth the thousands of creatures that have died to fill my appetite? Was it worth my OWN time? If you ask me, it wasn't.
Look around you. What do you see? You see things. Clothes, furniture, housing, tools, machinery, technology, vehicles. You may be able to give me the skinny on how each of those things are used, what they are made of, and where it was manufactured. What is that worth to you?
The truth is, we are dependent. No matter how much we know about the basics of the things that surround us, it's all useless if we do not take inspiration from it. We generalize what we have and what we know as all we will ever need. The stage is set, and our vision of the future will not change until the successors change it for us.
I say be the successor. Not to others, but to yourself.
You might have seen at one point how long you've spent on a particular game or even character. Fact of the matter is, the game will eventually end, and all of that will have been nothing but a memory of unproductive satisfaction. But even I fall into the hypocrisy of it. I will probably never stop gaming, but I am willing to push that behind what's important in the long-run.
The Internet is a wondrous thing. Many have used it to teach themselves what an education can without thousands of dollars spent. Not saying an education isn't necessary, but we certainly have the tools at our own luxury to become bigger than what we'd imagine. Physics, biology, engineering, business management, programming.. All of which are right within our reach. But we have found ourselves using the hammer to chip away at our lives, not build upon it.
Many times throughout your lives, you may have heard the expression "life's too short". You see, I look at my life in fractions. I recently turned 20, a fifth of my life if I'm lucky, and I look back on the time I've used. Little to nothing to brag about. Has my life been worth the thousands of pounds of garbage I've left on this world? Is it worth the thousands of creatures that have died to fill my appetite? Was it worth my OWN time? If you ask me, it wasn't.
Look around you. What do you see? You see things. Clothes, furniture, housing, tools, machinery, technology, vehicles. You may be able to give me the skinny on how each of those things are used, what they are made of, and where it was manufactured. What is that worth to you?
The truth is, we are dependent. No matter how much we know about the basics of the things that surround us, it's all useless if we do not take inspiration from it. We generalize what we have and what we know as all we will ever need. The stage is set, and our vision of the future will not change until the successors change it for us.
I say be the successor. Not to others, but to yourself.
You might have seen at one point how long you've spent on a particular game or even character. Fact of the matter is, the game will eventually end, and all of that will have been nothing but a memory of unproductive satisfaction. But even I fall into the hypocrisy of it. I will probably never stop gaming, but I am willing to push that behind what's important in the long-run.
The Internet is a wondrous thing. Many have used it to teach themselves what an education can without thousands of dollars spent. Not saying an education isn't necessary, but we certainly have the tools at our own luxury to become bigger than what we'd imagine. Physics, biology, engineering, business management, programming.. All of which are right within our reach. But we have found ourselves using the hammer to chip away at our lives, not build upon it.
