Dealing with FOMO and False Hopes | Ep. 17

There is only one way to capture an illusion and that is to commit it to memory by closing your eyes. Let it fall to rest with a tombstone in your memories, under a shady tree that you don’t intend to visit again.

Truth and illusion cannot coexist. And sensations like FOMO are always going to remain on the peripheral horizon, forever unattainable, forever tantalizing you as a fire fly in the night, beckoning you to come closer, promising a taste, but never delivering on that promise.

You’ll find that fear of missing out in all places of the free enterprise: Wall Street, crypto, real estate… But also in social media, on Abbot Kinney, 5th Ave., Macau. What is it truly? False hope.

A promise that you will find happiness when you grasp onto the illusion before you.

And this creates so much FOMO in the process of reaching. 

So what if you aren’t holding the fire fly? So what if you haven’t captured the illusion?

Do you have all the Time in the world. And truth does not need these illusions. What do you need a real helps, the beating of the drum in the moment. The cling of the hammer forging your strength, the turn of the page in your journal, the sensation of your tools in your hand as you approach your craft.

Let the illusions dance around you. Let the panic sit on the porch outside your workshop.

Let everyone else carry-on about the narcissistic trend and pump each other up with urgency. You will return to truth. You are the hammer in the Forge. You are a light in itself.

You will return to dust, so do not chase the ephemeral. It will find you soon enough.