An older guy once told me “you’ll reach a point in life when you accept that you’ll never achieve your dreams”
I check in with myself from time to time to make sure I never start believing that loser bs
i just found out today about a type of tree that grows underground for 3-4 years before you see anything. then suddenly within 6 weeks it grows up to 90ft tall. take from that what you wanna take.
Russell Westbrook is gone.
D-Wade is gone.
Duncan is gone.
Dwight is gone.
T-Mac is gone.
Pierce is gone.
Manu is gone.
Shaq is gone.
Nash is gone.
Melo is gone.
Kidd is gone.
CP3 is gone.
Dirk is gone.
Ray is gone.
Yao is gone.
KG is gone.
AI is gone.
Your childhood is over.
Man to man
The average milionaire is 57.
Not 21.
The average age to start a business is 43.
Not 23.
The average age to buy a house is 38.
Not 26.
The average age for a career pivot is 39.
Not 25.
Building animpressive physique takes 3 years.
Not 90 days
The average successful business takes 5-10 years.
Not 6 months.
So stop measuring your life against someone else's timeline.
You're not behind. You're still bulding. And you're right on time.
I saw a post on Reddit that said, “When you walk through a museum, you’re not just looking at art. You’re moving through centuries of people trying to explain love, grief, power, beauty, and belonging.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a museum described so beautifully.
The United States has had more than one hundred and fifty years to label the Ku Klux Klan a terrorist organization and has never done so. The fact that the Black Panther Party was dismantled by the US government but the Klan still exists tells you a lot about this country.
i saw an article called "make peace with your unlived life" and it really made me stop and think. so much of our lives is mourning for what we didn't become. It's a waste. we didn't waste any opportunities. what came and went was not meant for us
You will stop engaging when you realize the scale of arrested development going on in society. Most of these people are teenagers mentally.. and I’m being generous. A lot of people are stuck in elementary school when it comes to reasoning, comprehension, and decision making.
Michael Jordan just took his billionaire money and opened a free clinic in North Carolina for the people who cannot afford healthcare and I haven’t seen that story circulating and I wonder why.