We do nothing until it’s too late.
You’d think such calls for immediacy would drive us into action.
Passivity begs for a slap in the face.
The way to light life back up without a disaster first coming into your path is to avoid the contagion of disengagement.
Television and social media are low bandwidth activities that dull the brain into inanition.
Detach yourself from the comfort of the stream, the ludic loop. Get unstuck from the madness that is pure entertainment.
The urge to create turns loafers into participants.
“Life is trying things to see if they work.”
Ray Bradbury
It takes energy and discipline to escape the lure of doing nothing. It also takes persistence to move forward towards your attractors. Continued effort and belief wins out in the marketplace of ideas.
Instead of being an active consumer, decide to entertain yourself on the broad view of what you can do.
Throughout all choices and chapters in life, doing the work makes life worth living — inward and outward, freedom all at once.