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Some Spring night during my 8th grade year, I had a conversation that I cannot really remember that had to do with some girl that I liked and I somehow fucked it up. In an attempt to make myself feel better, I declared that life was a business and love was an investment, a la the stock market. A friend of mine was in agreement with me, and for the most part, I carried that philosophy throughout high school even though I drifted away from it as I got older.
Occasionally I went back to it here and there whenever the situation was deemed fit, but by the time I turned 21, I for the most part abandoned it. For the next two years my personal life was a disaster. It was manageable until my professional life followed suit. I was doing anything I could to preserve things that probably shouldn't have been preserved; and when I lost the worthless things that were not worth preserving, I found myself doing anything and everything to make myself feel better.
You can't run a business as a series of patches and fixes for short term stability, put off finding a long term solution later, and run a successful business. Your business will be a disaster, you will be in despair, and you'll be quick to raise the white flag on the prospects of prosperity. It works the same way with life.
Life is a business, but of a different kind. Success is defined by you, whatever it may be that meets your criteria of success. It could be that big house, or that Porsche, or it could be as simple as being able to provide for yourself and family in comfort. The ups and downs of your life cycle -- your personal business cycle -- depends on what emotional or mental state that you're in. They're wide variables. Plug in whatever you want.
There's boom and busts, growth and depressions -- those fucking depressions that get us. There's always being an optimist, being a pessimist, or being a realist. There's being a realistic pessimist until you have a reason to be optimistic. It's similar to various schools of economic thought -- there's something for everyone, from the mixed-economist Keynesians, to the free market Chicago and Austrian schools, to the communal socialists. Fill in your own fucking blanks.
This isn't me being nihilistic, no; this is a corollary to what I mentioned before in the post about the value of living. This life that you life is whatever you make of it. This life is your business, your own fucking business. And just like any business that exists, it's up to those at the genesis of the business to lay the foundation of success. It's up to those that run the business to interpret what happens into positives and negatives and advantages and disadvantages. No, I'm not trying to go Ayn Rand on you. All I'm saying is don't box yourself in, for your life is your business.
You can't run a business as a series of patches and fixes for short term stability, put off finding a long term solution later, and run a successful business. Your business will be a disaster, you will be in despair, and you'll be quick to raise the white flag on the prospects of prosperity. It works the same way with life.
Life is a business, but of a different kind. Success is defined by you, whatever it may be that meets your criteria of success. It could be that big house, or that Porsche, or it could be as simple as being able to provide for yourself and family in comfort. The ups and downs of your life cycle -- your personal business cycle -- depends on what emotional or mental state that you're in. They're wide variables. Plug in whatever you want.
There's boom and busts, growth and depressions -- those fucking depressions that get us. There's always being an optimist, being a pessimist, or being a realist. There's being a realistic pessimist until you have a reason to be optimistic. It's similar to various schools of economic thought -- there's something for everyone, from the mixed-economist Keynesians, to the free market Chicago and Austrian schools, to the communal socialists. Fill in your own fucking blanks.
This isn't me being nihilistic, no; this is a corollary to what I mentioned before in the post about the value of living. This life that you life is whatever you make of it. This life is your business, your own fucking business. And just like any business that exists, it's up to those at the genesis of the business to lay the foundation of success. It's up to those that run the business to interpret what happens into positives and negatives and advantages and disadvantages. No, I'm not trying to go Ayn Rand on you. All I'm saying is don't box yourself in, for your life is your business.
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