The Universe Doesn't Give A Flying F*** About You
Welcome to the one day at a time podcast where we forget about yesterday. We don't worry about tomorrow. It's what are we gonna do today that's all the matters because you've only ever had or will ever have the fantastic twenty four hours a day you're about to embark on. So hopefully this episode is gonna give you some daily dose of wisdom that you can take action on today to improve your life. And remember, all it takes is one day at a time.
Speaker 1:Good morning everyone. I did this I've done this voice note before well based on this same book but I think it's important to get reminded of ideally if someone could tell me this every day that'll be great. But, sometimes we just need to remind ourselves of the reality of our lives. So here it goes. This is from a short book called The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You.
Speaker 1:It's got some swear words, so apologies beforehand. So here we go. I'm gonna read what the book says, and hopefully, you'd like to fire up your ass to, go and do something today to make the most of today. Okay. You ready?
Speaker 1:I don't know about you but looking up into the sky on a clear night is enough to give me existential chills. You're not just looking up into a curtain of black, you're looking into the eye of the universe. Stare for a while and you start to realize on a deep gut level that the moon is a giant rock circulating us in space. The sun is a violent fusion fuel ball of plasma and gas millions of miles away that destroyed the atmosphere of all inner planets including Mars, which is further away from the the sun than we are and would do the same to ours if we weren't lucky enough to have a magnetic field that diverts the solar wind. Even avoiding all of that though just buys us time, the earth is not permanent, the sun is not permanent, the oldest stars alive today are not permanent, it will all end.
Speaker 1:Here on our little blue planet, here at the exact tiny special blink in time, here but only here in the way the beetle might be there on the sidewalk of Times Square during rush hour. Sure, the beetle can survive but only for as long as it's not in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nobody's out to get the beetle but nobody's watching where they step in either. The city was there long before the beetle and it'll be there long after the beetle's inevitable demise. The city, always neutral, honestly doesn't care one way or another whether the beetle lives, dies, suffers, or thrives.
Speaker 1:And you were worried that trying something new might make you look dumb or that your business might not take any money. What the fuck is wrong with you? The universe doesn't care about you. It can't. It's too big with too much going on.
Speaker 1:Maybe there's a grand conductor and maybe there's not. I do happen to believe in God or the spirit of life or the force of all I know but regardless of belief or disbelief one thing I know for certain is that no matter what or who is out there he or it doesn't care if you define care in terms of life and death. Nobody is special, nobody gets a pass. Everything dies, everything. You were born with a terminal disease just like everything else has ever existed.
Speaker 1:You, your lamp, the sun, and the BG's all have that all in common. You'd think we're never gonna die the way we cower and second guess and fret over every little action. We can't do something that might make us look ridiculous because first impressions last forever. We can't try and fail because then we'll be ruined forever. Think a scar or a tattoo for that matter is permanent.
Speaker 1:No. It's not. Your body was literally formed from stardust and it will eventually return there. The duration of a scar doesn't even register on the big timeline. In fact, I hear that God watches jewelry commercials and lols when they say that diamonds are forever.
Speaker 1:It's all a big joke up there. There's a drinking game in heaven where angels do a shot every time a human vests for the long term. What are you fucking worried about? You are here now. Eventually, you will be gone.
Speaker 1:You have put a nanosecond on the universal clock to do whatever it is you're gonna do. When that time's gone, it's gone forever. That means that although what you do doesn't matter to the universe, it should matter one hell of a lot to you. In fact, it should matter to you more than it currently does. If you know how small you are and how short of a time you have to do what you can, you wouldn't waste time watching fucking five hours of TV.
Speaker 1:You wouldn't waste time doing a job you hate. You wouldn't waste time the little time you have dealing with assholes, feeling sorry for yourself or being timid about the things you'd really like to do. Once I was a kid and everyone else was a kid, the tables will turn. I'll be the guy that looks at kids at the end and sees an old me. Fucking me, me who was once on out cruising on Friday nights staying up until dawn, me who thought I was indestructible, who thought I will I will I was forever.
Speaker 1:Turns out I was wrong. Turns out I was just one in 6,800,000,000 and very much subject to the same laws of time and space as everybody else. One day, if I'm lucky, I'll be a shriveled 100 year old guy with a cane, an old man with a kid's mind wondering how the hell this could have happened. Do yourself a favor right now and realize two things. You will keep getting older, and then you will die.
Speaker 1:Two, everything that's ever entered entered your experience has lasted and will continue to last for only a brief moment in the life of the universe. This is game time champ. You're in. You're in playing right now when the clock is ticking. So stop wondering what it all means and how you'll possibly ever do x and what people will think.
Speaker 1:And get on with your life already. Stop being a melon and go and do something amazing. And that's it. Hope you enjoyed it. But in essence, basically, look, nothing is like he says, nothing lasts forever.
Speaker 1:We all worry about what people think, blah blah blah blah blah. We all think we've got so much time when time passes by. The only thing we can do is make the most of every day. So what he's touching upon there is like, I mean, you don't have go and do some amazing, like start a multibillion pound company or whatever. But you gotta you gotta take risks and you gotta wanna go out of your comfort zone and try something and push yourself and and make the most of your days.
Speaker 1:Because if you don't, life will just pass by. And then you'd be like, oh, fuck. I can't believe can't believe I'm now, you know, x age. And I didn't do this and I didn't do that. I've always wanted to do that.
Speaker 1:So the story, the key message is to do stuff, because the pain of regret is worse, right? Regret is the worst thing. So do just live your life, do just do all these things you want to do. But obviously, we need to take things one day at a time. We plan our goals like all of us are on this challenge, which means obviously, we're on the right track.
Speaker 1:We're trying martial arts, we're trying yoga, we're doing workers, we're doing macros, we're in this community, we're trying our best to a lockdown. So anyway, we are all on the right track. We're all smashing it in regards to that because we're doing these new things. We're all and all of you've got responsibilities like jobs and and kids, and some of you are older, some of you are younger. It's amazing what you're all actually doing now in times of, you know, basically global crisis.
Speaker 1:So really this this this more that kind of model I just did with that from that book is it does apply to everyone, but you guys are all on the right track. So do pat yourself in the back for that. But if you feel like like anything in that message, yeah, maybe I am doing something I hate. Oh, yeah. Maybe I'm not doing something because I'm worried what someone will think.
Speaker 1:Well, you know you are on a nanosecond on the timeline of the universe and people forget stuff right so just do things, do your best, do the things you want to do and if it doesn't work out at least you tried. Okay That's the most important thing. Now I'm gonna leave you on that. Have a good day. Remember, take things one day at a time.
Speaker 1:What are you gonna do today to maximize this twenty four hours you've got? What's your one big thing that you think if I do this, it'll be that my day is a success, then maybe go and cross other things off. And if you can do that, and you can make the most of your days, you'll make the most of your life. And that's it. Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Scott Fleer.
Speaker 1:Hopefully, you understood something I said. I hope that some wisdom kind of distilled through into your mind, and I want you to now action it today. I don't want you to think about tomorrow. I don't want you to think about yesterday. I don't want you to think about leaving a review on this podcast.
Speaker 1:I don't want you to think about going to another website. What I want you to do is as soon as this podcast ends, you will take action and make the most of today. Ground yourself today. Follow the one day at a time philosophy and your life will change.
