Life’s most puzzling challenge is learning how to use the most of my time. The pursuit of unraveling moments in time. Personal growth, the acquisition of knowledge, foraging new experiences, and retrieving memories. They all serve to aid in expounding the most out of life’s moments, to achieve a timeless consciousness that exists in a finite space in time. The more of these ideals we consume and integrate into our current state, the more we can unravel in time, the more facets we can allow life to shine more fully.
‘What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think.’ -Emerson
If I can immortalize that statement into my psyche, I will grow to greater heights than I could ever currently imagine. When we attempt to customize our beliefs around other peoples conceptions, we denounce faith in our ability to rationalize the world for ourselves. When this happens imagination is extinguished. We are left expending our energies on justifying others ideals and opinions and never fully explore the validity of our own experiences.
I will not say that understanding others point of view isn’t incredibly important. It serves as a practice of reinforcing a perspective when ours are falling short. Other men’s ideas should never serve as a substitute for our own however.
‘Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.’
R.W. Emerson (from the essay American Scholar)
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ~ Epictetus
William Dare 