April 29, 2025

Most of your motivational problems would be solved the moment you grasp the miracle of your own existence. The simple fact that you exist is a miracle. And taking it for granted allows you to keep pretending.

Pretending that life is "OK" the way it is now, that you are doing "enough," and your job is "fine" for now. Taking life for granted is the biggest entry ticket to a mundane, mediocre, unfulfilled existence. In this existence, you can rationalize why you don't wake up every day full of drive – drive to bring your existence to blossom, to create something out of your being here.

Taking life for granted allows you to live without urgency. I mean, why do something today if you could do it tomorrow? Right? Why bother working on your character if it does the job for now?

Taking life for granted is so ingrained in our culture and our everyday way of being that we are mostly blind to it. Your friends do the same, and your family does the same, so why don't you do it too? On the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter. You can take life for granted and live without any sense of urgency, and that's "ok." Who cares?

You care. And it matters to you. Your life and what you'll make out of it. Most people, when they are getting to their final years, don't regret the things they did, but the things they didn't do.

They regret not having asked the girl, not taking the risk of travel, not starting the business, not living more adventures. And they regret that they took the time they had with their loved ones for granted. They regret not having lived fully.

But you'll wait until then to see it? Because it is more comfortable not to break out, not wake up, not rock the boat. It is more comfortable to keep pretending that you live the life you want, that the job is "ok," and that you are kind of happy with it.

So you keep trading the miracle of existence for comfort and "okness." Therefore, when you are in your 90s looking back, you can say, "I wish I risked more, loved more, played more, appreciated more."

Or, you can wake up today, give up comfort, and go all-in on the one life you have. No excuse, no justification, just pure living. You have that choice every waking hour of your day, and as long as you are breathing, you can start living fully now.