Meditation for May 25th, 2016
Doing Your Passion
You should be able to find and do your passion. All of us have a rare gift to give this world and we should be passionate about it. If we love what we do, we do what we love. So go out there and find your passion and do it!
Except that the odds you get to do what you want to do is totally against you. Unless shit is lined up for you with privilage or the luck of a gambler, you are just going to work at a job you don’t really like most days. They fucking made a restaurant chain called TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday) so you know where to go to eat and drink your miserable existence away.
If you are reading this and you say, hey! I’m doing what I love! So Dave must be wrong! First off, I am a published meditation expert so me being wrong is hardly the issue. You are either extremely blessed by the gods or by a privileged life or more than likely you are lying to yourself so you don’t jump off a bridge.
90.7% of people in the world don’t get to do what they want to for their life career. 50% of the 9.3% are only 75% sure they want to do what they are doing 1/3 of the time. 15% of every 25% of the 50% of the 9.3% are recovering alcoholic addicts, so everything toots their horn.
Before a person becomes part of the 90.7% that don’t get to do what they want spend their time trying to figure out what they do want to do. Either they are just unimpressed by most things or over stimulated by every possible and tries to live as much as possible, but makes sure you know how busy they are by telling you often how busy they are. They are busy. Really busy. They woke up and then and then and then and then and then and then…
A lot of the 90.7% just never found what they were looking for because, A. They didn’t listen, and I mean really listen, to the U2 song, and 2. They kept getting distracted by Facebook, reality shows, articles on how to enjoy the latest fad without being an asshole – or at least an asshole in a certain way, but totally fine being an asshole in other ways, and just wanting to always be with people all the time.
Have you ever noticed that people that are judgemental the most have the clearest idea what they want?
Prayer
Plutus,
I want to be really into something.
I want to feel a passion for something and then do it.
I don’t want to start doing what I want to do and either lose interest or ambition.
I am afraid of hard work.
It’s hard.
I want to do something where I don’t have to work up too early,
But I don’t want to stay at work too late,
I want weekends off,
I want to be able to go on vacation whenever I want,
And I don’t want to lose money when I do go on vacation.
I want to do something crafty.
Nah, too time consuming.
I want to live off of art.
Too scared to try and take that risk.
I want to work little for a lot of money,
But that would require fucking people over.
I guess I’ll just go to my job I have now.
I’ll just get a hobby.
Amen.
Craft
Get a hobby. It’s a lot like doing what you want without the stress of trying to live off of it.
Goal
Sometimes just going to work is good enough. Maybe you’ll get to do what you want and maybe things will get in the way finding any kind of passion.