@runliftrunlift Ran ~500kms in them after a podiatrist recommendation. Found them to be a great slow running shoe, though perhaps slightly heavy on the feet and very hard to push the pace in.
Working 9 to 5 you don't like it though
Give em half your life but when you're there
Time is slow
Feel stuck
Life ran out of luck
Others raise your kids
Use your cash to pass the buck
Working 9 to 5
Costs you more than just your time
Working 9 to 5
How you lost your friends and wife
Working 9 to 5
Trading freedom for a screen
Working 9 to 5
Gave em more than what it seems
The great ones don’t do it for money or fame or power.
Or to build an institution, or to help others, or to save the world.
Like a child tinkering, they create it for its own sake.
Free of the burden of ambition.
Deaf to the demands of the world.
The 9 to 5 - the daily grind.
Many of us working on things that we don’t like doing in order to go on living lives that we don’t like living.
Then we encourage our children to do the same thing.
We throw them into an education system that leads them into debt and struggling to survive.
We’ve been cheated; we were fooled.
Isn’t it better to live a short life full of joy and excitement, than a long one living depressed.
Live your life now.
If money’s the most important thing to you, you’ll spend your life wasting your time.
Recognise that success isn't measured solely by financial gain and status, but by the joy and satisfaction you gain from your daily life.
Do work that you love and let that work become an expression of your true self.
Dad tip:
Stop rushing around so much
I noticed a bad habit creeping in a few months ago
At bedtime with our oldest, we read two stories every night, then we listen to an audio story
Gradually I found myself rushing through the process, getting frustrated with how long it would take to pick out a book, talk about the pictures, etc etc
And inevitably the book or audio stories would raise questions that my toddler wanted to talk through
And in my brain all of this took too long. "We aren't being efficient, we're wasting time, etc etc"
But then one day it struck me, "what the fck am I rushing around for? Why am I wishing away this precious time with my son? What would I do instead of hang out with him at bedtime...go downstairs and do nothing? What a joke."
My humble advice to dads reading this is to stop rushing things that don't actually need rushing
Do an extra story. Have that random conversation. Let them talk and let the minutes pass by together.
Because the good old days are happening right now, and it's a shame to wish them away
@orangebook I wouldn't call myself a religious man, however I found a lot of my anxieties fell away when I started reading the bible. Recognising that god is within us all gave me a profound sense of peace and shifted my perception from isolation to interconnectedness.
The size or grandeur of the mark you leave on the world is not of importance. It's not about achieving great fame or monumental feats; it's about the authenticity, love, and joy you infuse into your life and the lives of those you touch.