My first date with my wife was to a coffee shop. It closed while we were mid conversation, things going well, decided to stroll through the nearby park. Then I saw her gait and was absolutely floored. I told her I had never seen biomechanics like that. She blushed.
4x NBA Champion Horace Grant
(speaks on playing with Kobe 🐍 & Shaq ⛽️ during their 2001 title run)
“I remember Shaq fouls out… Kobe walks to the bench & says ‘I got this’
This motherf*er (Kobe) went out there & was dunking on David Robinson Tim Duncan like it was NOTHING, he took over the game & we won. I was like ‘that’s some MJ shit’ because of course I seen it with MJ but other than that.. no never. Kobe was that f*king man… he was that beast bruh.”
Something I noticed about genuinely happy people: They're doing less than you. They have fewer goals. Fewer appointments. Fewer obligations. They've learned that addition by subtraction is real. While you're optimizing every minute, they're sitting on their porch drinking coffee. They're not lazy. They just figured out that most of what we chase doesn't matter. Busy is a choice. Peace is too. One looks successful. The other actually is.
Life is amazing:
-gyms exist
-Coke Zero exists
-hot girls outnumber even moderately put-together dudes 2000 to 1
-every food item in the world has been hunted and gathered for you (grocery stores)
-you and your wife can drink 4 bottles of wine then smash all night without a condom
-you and your friends can hit the gym then smoke a joint at a John Mayer concert
-you could be working 16 hour days in a coal mine in a third world country breaking your lower back for less than $1
There’s kids who live in wheelchairs. There’s kids born with disabilities. No Prom, no Shoulder Presses, no sleepovers with their best friends staying up until 2AM watching Interstellar.
And you’re not SMASHING the gym like a grateful SAVAGE!? Eating healthy 90% of the time, calling your friends for no reason, CRUSHING it in your career, asking for the promotion, asking out your crush making her your girlfriend then your wife!?
You’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion MIRACLE. You’re so lucky it’s absurd and you have nothing to lose :)