"You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here"
Good morning everybody I'm back right now with a poem. I know, listen, some of you don't like poems, grow up. I'm talking. Listen, they're full of wisdom, right, there's loads of people who've written poems and it's taken them months and maybe years to digest things. This is one that I read.
Speaker 1:I feel a bit down, know, when I feel a bit lack of energies, like tough work week and you've got no time to do what you want, want to read, you want to go for the walk and all the work, because you can't achieve everything you want to do, that we all come under these pressures as a parent, as a as working, whatever. It's fine. It's fine. Happens. Sometimes just, you know, chill out a bit, put some nice music on and read some poems or listen to them on YouTube.
Speaker 1:Some awesome YouTube channels of Gollum. But here's one for you. It's called Desiderata. I think that's what you say. It's by Max Irmen.
Speaker 1:1927, this was written. Guys, got a lot of wisdom in it. So I'm gonna read this for you. You're gonna enjoy your Friday to the max, and then you're gonna enjoy your Saturday to the max, and then you're Sunday to the max, and you're back on Monday. Sounds good.
Speaker 1:Okay. Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others even to the dull and the ignorant. They too have their story.
Speaker 1:Avoid loud and aggressive persons. They are vex vexious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may you may become vain or bitter. For always, there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. That's that's beautiful.
Speaker 1:Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career. However humble, it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is.
Speaker 1:Many persons strive for the higher ideals and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself, especially do not feign affection, neither neither be cynical about love. For in the face of all rigidity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune, but do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Speaker 1:Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Very true. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. You have the right to be here.
Speaker 1:And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him or her to be, And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusions of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful, strive to be happy. How good is that poem guys?
Speaker 1:Come on. Please, are you all on the same page as me? This that's beautiful. So many I'm just gonna pick a few things out, relay them to you, I'm off. I'm gonna enjoy my night.
Speaker 1:This is because I recall this before, the day before. Okay, let's have a look at one of the ones I love. I really, really love this because it says it from two perspectives. If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for there'll always be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Okay?
Speaker 1:We always think of don't compare yourself to others because we often compare ourselves to people better than us and it makes us feel bad. But there's a there's another ugly truth to that. If we compare ourselves to others and we put in someone above us, that must mean there's people below us that we look at and we go, I feel better now. Okay? That's not good either.
Speaker 1:So we are by comparing ourselves to others and looking up, oh, I feel bad, but then making ourselves feel better by looking, oh, well, I'm better than that person. We're that we're always stuck in this we're stuck in this fight all the time. Nobody's better than anyone. If you don't think anyone's better than you and you're not better than anyone else, we're all on equal footing here. Everyone's different, got different shapes, sizes, minds, la la la.
Speaker 1:We all go through the same fears, anxieties, etcetera. Yeah. But I'm not not not the exact same, but we go through those human conditions. But the comparison's got a double edged sword as to go come compare them and I want to achieve but then I'm putting other people down as well and that's not good. Love that.
Speaker 1:Love it. So stop comparing because it makes you feel bad but also stop comparing because it's gonna make you think you're better than others and you're gonna get vain. We've got no room for vanity around you. Oh, you make money. What?
Speaker 1:Oh, well done, mate. You make coin. Think you're better than someone. Oh, you got abs. You think you're better than someone?
Speaker 1:Oh, you got a nice suit. Good job. Think you're better than someone. Oh, think about these things. Pathetic.
Speaker 1:And Imagine saying that to someone. It's funny, like, there's a story, isn't it, that goes around, just like about that fisherman and there's like a businessman who goes to see this fisherman and he's like yeah you catch a lot of fish and the fisherman's like yeah and the business guy's like well why don't we set up more of these and then give you bigger boats so you can catch more fish? He's like why would I do that? And he's like well if you catch more fish and more boats you make more money. He's like why would I do that?
Speaker 1:Because if you have to make more money then you can open an office in New York and you can go there. He's like why would I do that? He's like well if you decide then you can make more money then you can retire and do what you want and then the guy's like I'm doing what I want now. I'm just enjoying my fishing and I'm just living this life. I enjoy doing what I need.
Speaker 1:You know, we're trying to build all this money to then retire. I was like, I have debate and my mother I always think like, mommy, I'm not going to wait until I'm 65 to enjoy my life. So I'm not going to wait to accumulate to enjoy. I'm going to do it now. So I'm not going to fall into this trap of like, achieving, achieving, achieving money, money, money.
Speaker 1:And then I go, well, I get my pension up and there's nine hours, stocks, or share whatever. And then at the end, I can enjoy it. It's gone, right? When I'm dead, it's gone, isn't it? Well, buy some bricks.
Speaker 1:Buy some bricks for a house. And I'll die. Do you know what I mean? I'm very I've got a different mindset. Obviously, buy now's spend the rent and all the time because obviously you give money away to someone.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, I just find it that story kind of makes you makes you makes you think that we're always chasing these like things that don't matter because this staff guy was just enjoying what he wanted to do and being a fisherman, didn't want to get more money, didn't want a bigger house, didn't want loads of employees, was just doing what he liked anyway and was making a living off it. And that's okay. We often fall into this trap. We need to be making mega bucks and this and that. Thing just came to play, keeping up with the Joneses.
Speaker 1:Anyway, next one. What is it? What is it? What is it? Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Be yourself, especially do not feign affection. I like it. Don't be fake to others, guys. Give fake affection.
Speaker 1:If you're gonna it's just not the way to go. That's a fake life. Oh, this is a good one. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. We don't speak to old people anymore.
Speaker 1:If you've got any grandparents alive, speak to them. We throw them in care homes, and we don't see them. We should be seeing them on the walks on the day. It should be normal to sit on the bench and speak to someone who's like 73 years old or 79 years old, 85 years old and just sit there and have a chat. Be like, John, are doing?
Speaker 1:He goes, yeah, good. And I'll be like, John, you're looking sharp. You've got your nice shoes there, polished trousers on, shirt as always, you've got style. I see young people, ah, look at us and those shit joggers and oversized t shirts, those stupid beanies. We're perfect, He's like yeah, yeah, yeah, we're more smart, we're smarter, yeah, yeah, 100.
Speaker 1:And they just, you know, they've a lot of wisdom to give us. But we never take counsel from our elderly. That's big parts of some cultures mind, there's big cultures where you listen to the elderly because they experience, they've got experience to know. You can't just know. Sometimes you have to live to know.
Speaker 1:And of course, some people can live through a very strenuous lifestyle young and learn a Some people can live until they're 60 but don't actually live at all and know nothing, of course. But yeah, I just find it sad. I love talking to different age groups. That's why I think turtle's awesome. Those different age groups and they're talking and we don't even doesn't even become a thing.
Speaker 1:So like, oh, you're 72. I'm 29 or whatever. It's just like, hey, yo. What's your name? I said, my name.
Speaker 1:How are you doing? We've separated, decided, we've segmented it. It's horrible. So guys, speak to your grandparents, please. Have a chat to them if they're still alive, of course.
Speaker 1:Or Any old person, say hello. Have a chat. Let's have a look. One more then. Okay.
Speaker 1:This one. If this doesn't hit you like a ton of bricks, that's what I'm saying. You are the child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here. You are the universe.
Speaker 1:You are this planet. We came from the ground, built millions of years ago, we eventually turned into us. And then we've a conscious that we can think about thinking therefore we are the universe becoming conscious it exists because we are the universe. Does that make sense guys? I'm not talking cuckoo, I'm genuine.
Speaker 1:We are made from stardust. How would we are we made from stardust? Because we've got carbon atoms inside our bodies and carbon is only formed when a star blows up, when a star dies. Yeah? That's in our bodies.
Speaker 1:We've got carbon in our bodies. This is nuts stuff. But we always think we're separate, us and this world, us and the planet, us and the animals, us and the trees, us and the plants. And that's where this fusion comes and we think, yeah, kill them. Yeah, kill them.
Speaker 1:No thought. If we're all mean, back at the the Zen the universe doesn't want me. The Zen Buddhists, yeah, they look at plants and then you go to Western, there's a poem poem from the East by Zen Buddhist and there's one from the West and the difference is staggering. The West is looking at it analytically like, oh, that's a flower. And the Zen Buddhist looks at it from the plant that he is the flower, like looking from inside, not like labeling this.
Speaker 1:Like, it's alive with it. Does that make sense? They see they don't look at a tree and go, you're a tree and I'm me. They don't try and label things. It's like, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1:Alive. I'm here. They kinda see themselves as the same thing, if that makes sense. It'd be nuts if it was like another species on this planet that was conscious like us and then we'd know because we'd like oh you're conscious as well and you're not a human being. Okay I get it so because we're the only conscious being on this planet we think we're mega special, but we are in a sense.
Speaker 1:We think can be different. We can't be made the same way as these animals and plants and all that. We aren't that. That's what we think. That's why we make up God and all our stuff.
Speaker 1:It can't be true. But it is true. It is true. You are the child of the universe. You have the right to be here.
Speaker 1:Love it, love it. You have the right to be here. You have the right to make the most of each day and that's why I said earlier about this like working for money jobs and stuff, don't need to do it. It's enough to enjoy the life you've been given because the chances of being alive is very slim. Think of all the battles my our ancestors went through, nearly died over the years.
Speaker 1:They survived the black plague. They killed one third of the European people. I mean, you're from Europe, you're doing it. One third died, no. Was it two thirds or one third?
Speaker 1:Wiped out. Somehow our ancestors survived. All the wars and the battles, there would have been males and females of course. There's there's been wars between every year since humans have existed. So it probably would have your great grand great great great grandfather, whatever, would have definitely been in some wars and survived somehow.
Speaker 1:And for us to be here today, it is mental. But here we are listening to me. Here we are listening to his voice in order to go in. There's another whash I wanna say, well go and live today then. You know, we go with goals of course, if you want to lose weight, great, fine.
Speaker 1:If you want to get strong, cool, cool, cool. But joyful each day is goal isn't it? Joyful like it says there, the world is tough, a lot of broken dreams, it slaps us, it punches us, but we can still be cheerful for life in the end. And it's hard to really have that mindset because when things really hit us hard, it's hard to get out of that rut, isn't it? Like, oh, no, no.
Speaker 1:But actually we zoom out a bit, maybe make you feel at ease a bit. So be cheerful today, smile on your face, enjoy your day, enjoy tracking. God we get a chance to track what we eat and all the nutrients in it, that's nuts. We get a chance to improve the strength of our bodies and not actually be running from farming and war and murderers and warlords. I mean, we get a chance to do we get a chance to work in our mindset.
Speaker 1:There's people in other parts of the world who don't even know about minds mindfulness because they don't have a chance to really think about themselves because they're just thinking about what they're gonna eat next. It's fire evil. We're actually at that phase where we can think about improving our mindset and that comes with its own problems obviously, which is the first world problems and the psychological. But you know, we got a chance to work on these and I think that's beautiful. So yeah, enjoy your day.
Speaker 1:Enjoy your weekend. Octagon is on its way. So guys get ready for it. I can't wait to blitz ten weeks, see what we can achieve. Hopefully, all progress, new members come in and progress, we're all add to the fam and then we will do a big event at the end.
Speaker 1:Happy days. But first of all, enjoy today, enjoy tomorrow, enjoy Sunday, see you Monday.
