If You Want to Provide Real Value to the World, Then Make Life Fun | Ep. 15

If you want to provide real value to the world, make life fun.

Because that’s all we’re doing is playing with pebbles in the sand.

Take the wordplay out of that, and it’s just moving rocks; life becomes a sort of penance, Tartarus, indentured servitude, and the only release is death.

So when you make the time pass with laughter and play, it begins to shine with true meaning.

Like the ring of a bell in the fog, fun shatters the gloom and lets your existence be recognized instead of obscured.

Laughter is the light of life.

But regardless of that, it’s interesting to be genuinely, really fun - not this shallow, fleeting, vaporizing kind of fun - the empty fun. You have to be selfless.

You gotta roll with the punches in life.

You gotta let go of the tantrums, the fantasies, the demands from life.

It’s a fine line along the edge of the river Styx. 

Like a dance right there on the edge. 

You have to give up your expectations and selflessly surrender with a shit-eating grin on your face that says, ‘come what may, this is going to be a blast!’

And when you land face first in a pile of rejection, failure, and broken relationships - you gotta take it in stride. This is the stuff that will make a good laugh three months from now.

Get your head on your shoulders and start playing.

Float through the turbulence like it’s a wild adventure.

So your friends are all selfish douchebags who only care about their own gains in life - cool. Give them a good laugh, let them enjoy the ride alongside you.

So your brain won’t turn off thinking about the screw-ups you made? 

Good. That means you get to laugh about it sooner or later. That means you’re alive - you’re thinking. You’re here.

So you’re stuck in a loop of playing the victim and want someone to take the blame for whatever crap you’re going through? 

It’s a game. It’s pebbles in the sand. Reach your hand out and find another pebble to play with. There are no victims as long as you can see the world as a playground.

Let go of the suffering. Let go of the indentured servitude.

Stop being afraid of getting close to the edge of the cliff.

That place, right there on the edge of what’s possible, is where the fun is at.

That place where familiarity meets surrendering to the unknown is where you’ll find the strength to give laughter in every situation.

So what?

Carry those words with you today.

So what?

When life gets hard, laugh with it.

So what? 

When the people around you are miserable, make it fun.

When your head gets to be a ball of dark scribbles and nasty exclamation marks - laugh with it. The hilarity of the situation is the path to joy.

You are here to have fun.

You are here to play.

You are here to love.