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THE QUEST AWAITS
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is a problem with our society. It is rooted deep and buried within us. It can’t be seen with the naked eye, try as we might.
It isn’t the economy or the government or inflation.
It isn’t the latest fad or technological disruption.
It isn’t the news which seems to get worse every single time we hear about it.
It is our powerlessness. Our feebleness. Our weakness. Our inability to act and our lack of readiness for the responsibilities required.
Ultimately, it is our inability to move forward in spite of the difficulties. We just don’t believe that we can unlock our potential and truly make a mark on this world.
Sure. We can get a new job or start a new career. We can act like we are experts and thought leaders and gurus. We can live the illusion and the falsehood.
Until we can’t.
Until we realize that life continues while we make plans.
Life ends while we are still trying to find out what we are supposed to be doing.
Not what we are told to do.
There is a journey waiting for you.
A QUEST.
And this quest is as old as our species. It lives within us. It awaits us to embark upon it.
To seek out new shores.
To leave our comfort zone.
To become lost.
To find the treasure so hard to attain.
To slay the dragon and become who we were meant to be.
Failure to do so is failure to truly live.
Do not make this mistake, the most costly of mistakes.
It begins right now with you.
Conquering fears, setting aside doubts, and going after that goal which has been there all along, waiting for you.
“Human reason grows rich by self-conquest.”-Publius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
LEAVE THE WASTE LAND BEHIND
“The Waste Land, then, is the land of people living inauthentic lives, doing what they think they must do to live, not spontaneously in the affirmation of life, but dutifully, obediently, and even grudgingly, because that is the way people are living.”-Joseph Campbell, Romance of the Grail: The Magic & Mystery of Arthurian Myth.
Make no mistake about it. We are living in a modern waste land.
Where society has become inauthentic.
Where people are driven by the same values.
Where you simply don’t belong.
The quest is what gives you an escape.
It is a reason to step outside the comfort zone, to seek something larger than yourself, to forge your own path to a destiny of your own choosing.
It isn’t the result of some retreat or free e-book or mastermind session.
The quest is the result from something deep within, something that is stirring you to action, because you know you are meant for more.
You understand that something isn’t right. You begin to see through the falsehoods that have been perpetuated for as long as you could remember. More importantly, you realize that nothing will change without you taking action.
Nothing will happen for you unless you take the leap of faith.
The world will not change its ways for you.
Only you can change yourself.
Only you can begin the quest to become who you are meant to be.
“The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment.” -Nicolás Gómez Dávila
YOUTOPIA AWAITS
“They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.”-Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
The dream you have is legitimate.
The feelings you have about your current situation are not wrong.
The goals you desire to accomplish can be realized.
A true YouTopian knows this. They don’t wait for things to happen but are the initiators of actions.
What is your quest? What is something that has been with you for as long as you can remember?
Perhaps it was to take a chance on yourself and move to a country whose culture you love but whose language was unknown and impossible for you to speak.
Or maybe it was a calling that others silenced because it didn’t lead to riches or stability.
Or it could have been to start a company, a brand, a movement, something that you talked yourself out of because you lacked the skills that everyone said were required for success.
Regardless, the time for waiting has come to an end.
The time for questing has begun.
To forge your own path and set out into the forest adventurous. To become a pilgrim of purpose. A seeker of significance. To leave behind the normal world and undertake the journey that awaits you.
It won’t be easy.
If it was, everyone would do it.
YouTopia awaits. But the doors are only opened to those courageous enough to blaze the trail, undertake the quest, and sacrifice safety and security for something larger than themselves.
It is only available to the YouTopian.
Go forward.
“If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable”.-E. O. Wilson
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Shaun.
"The world will not change its ways for you." How annoying. I keep waiting for everyone to do the right thing.