Someone told me the other day that sometimes purpose is like a pint of beer.
Allow me to expound: It charges your moment. You feel revived. Epic. Ebullient. Enormous (Make that three pints). Like Buzz Lightyear would say, This isn't flying, this is falling with style!
A lot has been composed in the name of beer. For example:
But what about tomorrow, when the high runs dry and you're back to the plain old you?
Drink more (Come on, I know that's what some of you are thinking)!
Metaphorically, I have to agree.
Nonetheless, don't let your thirst for purpose end in the bottom of your glass. And all you're left with is an instagram of a good time that's already the past and a dusty piano you promise to play someday.
You know the quip: How time flies!
It does. Another one of its pastimes is screeching at you every time you look in the mirror (See Nazgûl, or Hell-Hawk, for an apt imagery).
Refill your cup with some of these bottle rockers this summer, fresh or vintage. Whether your purpose is blossoming or still just a sprout, remember: "All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea (Napoleon Hill)."
Winning the Nobel Prize, discovering the cure to baldness, or digging a tunnel to China...whatever the hell it is, take care of your idea. You're tone deaf without one. And what's a life without having a song to live by?
For Tears:
If I Stay--Gayle Forman
Drama: A teenage cellist faces a life changing car crash.
For Passion:
The Handmaid's Tale--Margaret Atwood
Dystopia: Fertile women are sentenced to breed for the rich.
For Magic:
The House of the Spirits--Isabele Allende
Historical Fiction: The wealthy Trueba family's saga of love, spirituality and revolution in Latin America.
For Philosophy:
Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime Fiction: An all-time classic that makes everyone reflect deeply on their humanity.
Allow me to expound: It charges your moment. You feel revived. Epic. Ebullient. Enormous (Make that three pints). Like Buzz Lightyear would say, This isn't flying, this is falling with style!
A lot has been composed in the name of beer. For example:
I work until beer o'clock.
-Steven King
Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.
- Edgar Allan Poe
He was a wise man who invented beer.
-Plato
But what about tomorrow, when the high runs dry and you're back to the plain old you?
Drink more (Come on, I know that's what some of you are thinking)!
Metaphorically, I have to agree.
Nonetheless, don't let your thirst for purpose end in the bottom of your glass. And all you're left with is an instagram of a good time that's already the past and a dusty piano you promise to play someday.
You know the quip: How time flies!
It does. Another one of its pastimes is screeching at you every time you look in the mirror (See Nazgûl, or Hell-Hawk, for an apt imagery).
Refill your cup with some of these bottle rockers this summer, fresh or vintage. Whether your purpose is blossoming or still just a sprout, remember: "All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea (Napoleon Hill)."
Winning the Nobel Prize, discovering the cure to baldness, or digging a tunnel to China...whatever the hell it is, take care of your idea. You're tone deaf without one. And what's a life without having a song to live by?
For Tears:
If I Stay--Gayle Forman
Drama: A teenage cellist faces a life changing car crash.
For Passion:
The Handmaid's Tale--Margaret Atwood
Dystopia: Fertile women are sentenced to breed for the rich.
For Magic:
The House of the Spirits--Isabele Allende
Historical Fiction: The wealthy Trueba family's saga of love, spirituality and revolution in Latin America.
For Philosophy:
Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime Fiction: An all-time classic that makes everyone reflect deeply on their humanity.
