Everything isn’t for everybody. Let’s start there.
I’m definitely not.
It takes a certain mindset.
It takes a special heart.
It takes a strong soul to know how to truly understand me, appreciate me, and value me.
Not everyone is meant to.
The Coen Brothers made THE ODYSSEY long before Christopher Nolan. O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000) is one of the funniest and most inventive modern retellings of Homer’s epic ever put on screen.
A weird experience that happens in your mid-late twenties is you see your peers morph into the archetypical adult phenotypes. Like the strict school teacher, or the crazy woman in the neighborhood, or the used car salesman. You see your old friends and classmates become this.
“Don’t wait till you wake up to realize this hard life is a dream.
Your dream.
Your family and friends, the people and places that mean and have meant something to you.
Take them with you in your heart so that when you feel lost you can find your way home.”