In their quest to be happy entertained and comfortable, people often chose to hide from the fact that one day they will cease to exist. Death is scary, its final and rather than accept it as an inevitability people hamster that everything will be okay and resume wasting their lives.
We live lives so easy, so comfortable that we don't see death on a daily basis like our ancestors. We don't kill our own food. We don't fight our own wars. We have others settle our own disputes. The more safe and insulated your life is the less you understand it because you don't see its logical conclusion.
How I came to understand Mortality
Before I figured out how to pay for my education I was considering joining the military. During entrance processing my 19 year old self got a reality slap.
I was asked for my dental records by my Officer Selection Officer. When I asked why, I was told that my dental records would be used if and when my face was blown off by the Sergent in the room.
The sergeant had bronze star from fallujah and didn't give a fuck. After that I was handed a paper and instructed to write my will. The sergeant asked offhand what were my most valuable possessions. At that time it was my Muscle fitness Collection and my computer. I had put down my mom as my sole beneficiary.
The sergeant looked at my will and asked "So that in the event that you don't come back your mom will inherent your fitness magazines and porn collection." Correct. At that moment I knew that, this had happened to a mother of someone the Sargent knew.
The Moral of the story:
You have a limited time on this planet. You don't have time to be a beta, to be average, to be a loser, to live how others tell you to live. You have to get the most out of life because its the only life you have. You don't have time to worry about the feelings of sensitive losers or follow all the rules and guidelines in the student handbook. You have one life and living it by another man's rules, means laying on your deathbed regretting that your dreams were unfulfilled.
Alphas have war memorials dedicated to them. Betas rot in the ground forgotten.
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