There’s an adage that goes something like this: “love your village and the world will take care of itself” and I believe there’s a lot of truth to it.
Supporting your local farmers’ market, staying close with friends, investing in your community, coaching Little League—these are incredible things!
But social networks constantly push us to think bigger, bigger, and even bigger. It’s overwhelming, and I think it drives some people mad. Why? Because it’s impossible to truly grasp the actions of billions of people writing and socializing online. Our minds aren’t built for that. It’s like trying to lift 10,000 pounds over your head—your body and mind will simply break under the weight.
That said, I feel compelled to share this: the recent stories are a tragedy at levels. A young 26 year old in prison, a father of two lost, a veteran put in a bad situation, and another young man who needed help gone. Damn.
Meanwhile, if you spend time on social networks, you’ll find endless information, angles, and insights about it all, including all those involved.
At the end of the day, we only get about 100 years (I’m assuming my followers are driven people to break the mold beyond the 70 year average life span) — and unless someone like Bryan Johnson figures out how to stretch that to 300.
Either way, I’m an aging man now and if you really want to do something eye opening, take your current age, subtract it from 100, and that’s how many winters and summers you have left from this day onward. What will you do with such a gift?
I potentially only have 70 summers left. I love summer. I wish had 100000 summers left.