Fear and Despair
If it was all a matter of following your bliss and doing what made you happy, then everyone in the world would be a paragon of wisdom. But it is not all that at all. It is a matter of facing the thing that you least want to face. - Jordan Peterson
“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Society beats down the average man.
We live in the matrix where society actively tries to numb you. They actively try to say, hey, when you wake up at 4 in the morning and you have to go lay rebar in the gym and you don’t make enough money even though you work an 8 hour job with overtime, you don’t make enough money to raise a family, guess what, now your wife also has to work a job. Don’t worry, the school system will raise the kids. And while they do that, they beat you into the dirt and they say, hey, you can try this new vodka, whiskey, its fucking great. It goes down smooth. And it is so difficult in life not to want to reach towards that drink. It could be a social media addiction, it could be a sex addiction. It is so difficult in life for the average man to go work his ass off, come home and still not have enough. All he has to do is take a drag, take a hit, take a drink, and for that split moment the worries go away. Its such a fucking struggle. - Sean Strickland