Biggest Lie Told to Millennials

Monday Mountain
9/5/2016

The biggest lie told to millennials?

After some thinking it occurred to me, the young adults in America are lied to throughout their lives. It's something that we are made to believe but very few actually see it come to fruition. What is this lie?

The lie in its basic state: You are special.

You're just like everyone else. Pause for the angry grumbling to quiet down. Okay, I'll admit it you can be special. Simply existing in this society does not grant you a trophy, a paycheck, or any form of pats on the back. It's an atrocity to the world to instill this idea that you deserve anything without having earned it.

Fucking earn it. If you truly believe you're special, then invest in your uniqueness and earn what you believe you deserve. One person may be able to hold you back, but the whole world can't stop you.

Your childhood, my childhood, the American childhood... It's polluted with the ideas we are all special and unique and that we all should receive the ribbon for merely taking part. The process continues with standardized tests, parent-teacher conferences, so on and so-forth. This corruption of you social expectation is like an infection, you can fight it off if you so wish. Once you go off to college, your grades become your own, your actions become your own, and your future truly becomes your own. Own it.

That's how you can combat this lie, by believing in it and making it evolve into a true statement about yourself. By expecting more out of yourself than anyone else, you can then become that something special. The highest of standards should be the ones that you hold yourself to, not the ones the world places on you. Don't accept being told you're special, prove to the world that you're a marvel.

So Live Your Life, by Tecumseh

Tuesday Take
August 30, 2016

For this week's Tuesday Take, I am going to simply post this poem by Tecumseh. There is a good portion of it that can be interpreted. If you know me on a personal level, I want you to try and read this as if it were through my eyes, my perspective. Perhaps you'll get a glimpse into what I am a little more.

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart,

Trouble no one about their religion, respect other in their view and demand that they respect yours. 

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. 

Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. 

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place.

Show respect to all people and grovel to none. 

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. 

Abuse no one and no thing for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision,

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. 

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. 

Hitting Reset

Monday Mountain
August 30, 2016

I have been gone for a few weeks, I apologize for the absence of new content. While away at Fort Hood, it was a very good reset for my mental and physical being. Three weeks in the field, providing my services as the Executive Officer for a Weapons Company. This environment adds a different sort of fuel for my fire of passion. It reignites the passion for my physical development as an athlete versus a brute.

While living in the military world and mindset for the course of three weeks, it helps me to reset my feelings, goals, and actions. After discovering this process three years ago, my approach to the short time away is very much accepted and appreciated. It's a time where I can set myself away from the stress of my civilian job and focus on a different type of productivity, couple that with the physical demands that are required, it provides a refreshing set of requirements.

I recommend you to take a quick reset trip somewhere. Go on a trip where you will work with your hands, change the positioning of your mind, and also push yourself to achieve things you would not typically desire. By hitting this RESET, you will go back to your regular life with a new perspective and refreshed feeling towards it all.

Since I've accepted I'll Never Be Satisfied

Monday Mountain

August 8, 2016

Funny things happen on late nights and early mornings. Interesting thoughts occur while plunged into one's own mind. Epiphanies come to those who are able to find company with themselves, with whom they realize the world and their desires. 

I have accepted I'll never be content again. I committed to that lifestyle in my youth and it left me feeling inadequate and hungry. It's not about being happy for me, it pertains to being happy with what I did, what I'm doing, and who I am.  

As a kid, I was okay doing what was asked of me and that was it. Now as a young man, who is still maturing and learning about life, I've evolved into wanting more for myself and what accomplishments I achieve. 

I'm not going to say I'm driven. I'm just not content with what I've been dealt to this point. I shall take the game into my hands and bend the rules in order to achieve the results I want. There's just something that clicked as I got older where i finally said it was time to kick my game up a notch because I believe I can do anything. 

For my own success and happiness, no one else can help me attain this, it's imy burden to bear. For you the reader, you may not care about this but to me the realization of never being content is a n eternal flame on my engine.