THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was released 44 years ago today. One of Hollywood’s most popular films and most anticipated and acclaimed sequels, the making of story is as huge as you’d expect.
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Ali Krieger's final regular season match for @GothamFC was one to remember! 🫡
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Icons only. ⚽️ We're cheering on @alikrieger, Olympian, 2x World Cup Champion, and @GothamFC captain ahead of the final regular season game of her professional career #ThankYouKriegs
📍See you Oct. 15 at @RedBullArena
*That* you are is vastly more significant than *how* you are.
The fact that you get to walk around in a stunningly beautiful world made of pure mystery is vastly more significant than details about your life like whether or not you're living up to your ideas of what personal success looks like.
The fact that you were born into an unfathomably immense and complex universe which you get to perceive and think thoughts about is vastly more significant than any personal narratives you might have about whether you're good enough or doing it right or living up to expectations.
The fact that your field of consciousness gives rise to sights and sounds and thoughts and feelings is vastly more significant than whether you're achieving your goals in life or whether you've won your parents' approval.
I say "vastly more significant", but that's not really going far enough. I almost want to say "infinitely more significant", because those teeny tiny quibbles about the details of your life are so microscopic compared to the thundering majesty of this universe we get to participate in.
I say this not to minimize any of the real struggles your experience in your life, but to draw attention to the far far greater context in which they are occurring. Whatever's going on in the details of your life is a tiny speck next to the universe-sized explosion of the experience you were born into, and the significance of the fact that you're here for it.
It would be a real shame if you spent your life fixated on thoughts about whether you're adequate or worthy or doing life right instead of giving your attention and appreciation to the boundless cyclone of beauty you're in the middle of every waking moment of your life.