TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH THIS! Very Motivational!
find what you love and let it kill you
Charles Bukowski
Bukowski spent most of his life broke
drunk and getting fired from various
jobs eventually he ended up working in a
post office filing letters all his life
he wrote fruitlessly a total unknown and
a loser he wrote for almost 30 years
before finally getting his first book
deal it was a meagre deal when accepting
it he wrote I have one of two choices
stay in the post office and go crazy or
stay out here and play it writer and
stars I have decided to starve the
honesty in his writing his fears
failures regrets self-destruction
emotional dysfunction it is unparalleled
he will tell you the best and worst of
himself without flinching without
shifting his eyes or even muttering a
sorry about that as an afterthought he
wrote about both shame and pride without
qualification his writing was a quantum
Asst a silent embrace of the horrible
and beautiful man that he was and what
Bukowski understood which most people
don’t is that the best things in life
can sometimes be ugly you don’t get one
side without the other you don’t get
love without paying you don’t get
meaning and profundity without sacrifice
the concept of life purpose has exploded
in popularity in recent decades we don’t
just want to make money or build a
secure career we want to do something
important we want to be noticed we want
to be looked up to
if only we knew what we were meant to do
then everything would fit into place and
while it’s possible to brainstorm some
ideas to help one get started finding
meaning and purpose is not a 5-day spa
retreat as Bukowski said what matters
most is how well you walk through the
fire
finding the passion and purpose in your
life is a trial by fire process you
don’t simply wake up one day and become
happy doing one thing forever and ever
it’s a constant work in progress
you must try something pay attention to
how it feels
adjust and then try again nobody gets it
right on the first try
or the tenth or sometimes even the 200th
and then when you do get it right it’s
liable to one day change because you
change and what Bukowski understood more
than most was that doing what you love
is not always loving what you do there’s
an inherent sacrifice to it just like
choosing a spouse it’s not choosing
someone who makes you happy all the time
it’s choosing somebody who you want to
be with even when they’re pissing you
off it’s something that feels like an
inevitability like you have no choice
because this is simply who you are
dysfunction and all it’s your chosen
vehicle towards death and you’re happy
to let it take you there
just like few of us experienced love at
first sight
few will experience passion and meaning
at first experience like a relationship
we must build it from scratch piece by
piece until after years of brick and
sweat it can stand on its own we’re here
to laugh at the odds
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