Taking the First Steps...

dellecto · 2018-11-01T01:33:01+00:00

A few years ago my best friend died of leukemia (he was only 19). One day when I visited him we were just talking the usual stuff when he suddenly started telling me about his future. He told me he would start lifting to get fit, that he was going to be successful academically, etc. He told me about how he wanted to be successful in life general.

But why? Why now? Before his cancer he had never lifted a weight in his life before. We failed every class together because we were just these lazy kids who wanted to do nothing but play games all day and waste time. Getting back to your post, what motivation got my friend out of bed in the morning and drove him to becoming a better person every day? Why did he start telling me these things?

DEATH

You can't deny it, you can't escape it, there is nothing you can do about it. When your time comes it's game over. After my friend died I fell into a deep depression at a young age, never told anyone about it because I didn't know I had it in the first place. But during the time that I was laying around in bed all day I started thinking about this friend. The way he must have felt. The things he NEVER told me. He was always smiling when I visited him but who knows what he looked like when he was alone. He knew his time was limited. AND SO SHOULD YOU.

You're already dying but just don't know when you're going to exhale your last breath. It might be tomorrow, it might be in a week or even a few years. Do you feel like you're living at your full potential? Probably not. You know what you should be doing right now, so start doing it without any excuses, FORCE yourself.

Don't search for a motivation, be your own motivation. Get better at life. Train the skill of life by doing the things that make you get better at it. Do the things you enjoy but also don't enjoy. Not everything is going to be the way you want it but you're a man, act like it and solve your problems.

Find. A. Mission. And pursue it with the goal of reaching it.

Read (get smarter) Lift (get stronger) Meditate (get even) Be social (meeting people is fun and useful in some cases) ....

LIVE LIFE, there is so much to discover, to experience, to taste, to feel, to see, to read, to listen, to learn, to whatever you want. Being lazy is not the way to reach these things.

Some inspirational quotes to get you going:

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life"

Charles Darwin

"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

Socrates

FireDrillem · 2018-11-01T02:08:08+00:00

Seeing others that I KNEW I was smarter, faster, better looking and stronger than winning. When I saw some of the punk ass Johnny Goobers getting theirs, I knew I was slacking big time.

eye8yourbaby · 2018-11-01T14:15:48+00:00

Your question is your answer. Either wake up and ask yourself that for the rest of your life or act on it. But if you need others stories to "relate" here ya go:

I was a beta cuck in a 2 year long relationship with someone 10 years older than me. Theres no need to explain her bad qualities, I made the mistake. I lost my frame and who I was. One day I woke up and realized I had changed over time. Got comfortable and fat, did nothing with my life except go to the same dive bar with her then eat fast food in bed. Luckily a week before we broke up I got an amazing new job in my career/life path. I focus on work, hit the gym again (going to lose that 50lbs AGAIN), focused on my hobbies of photography and design work. Go into monk mode for a month. Focus on you. I lost sight of what I wanted.

If you want the reward, you have to struggle. If you want the results, you have to endor the process. Don't be in love with victory, but the fight. Your struggles determine your success. I still struggle to this day, but I know in the end I will be MY BEST.

Icieee · 2018-11-01T01:03:01+00:00

Getting dumped and promising I’d be a better man after it all with better frame and a hell of a lot more confidence.

Title	Taking the First Steps...
Author	TheAverageRedditer33
Upvotes	1
Comments	4
Date	November 1, 2018 12:14 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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