The Secret to Overnight Success, The beginning of Memento Mori I
HA! Caughtcha.
Obviously, there is no overnight success.
It doesn’t exist, we as human beings should stop being so flustered about trying to become successful overnight for one good reason; All the time spent on trying to win the lottery in life could be spent making an effort to make something meaningful about your existence.
If you do that for an extended period of time, and you’re not a complete #*!hole, you should be able to become successful.
The term memento mori is fairly common nowadays, but not utilized to its full effect in my opinion. Memento mori is Latin for ‘’Remember you must die’’
Remembering you must die is a petrifying and liberating statement.
Remembering your own mortality produces a duality in the human psyche. Remembering this reality can freeze a weak-minded person. It is terrifying to truly understand that one day you won’t exist. If you’ve ever had a near-death experience, you understand VERY quickly that you are in fact not immortal. Your life is fragile and ephemeral. Nothing in this world is eternal.
So why bother even living?
What is it all worth it for if nothing will prevail?
Why bother working hard and delay gratification? If we’re all to die, why does it matter?
Let me tell you why
Because the opposite of life is not death. The opposite of life is ENDLESS SUFFERING, and that is WAY worse than dying.
Endless suffering comes from a nihilistic point that nothing is worth living because of its mortality.
Let’s flip this point of view around.
The mere fact that your life is limited should push you to make it better every day. A bitter life is long and dull. Bitterness about mortality leads to nothingness. Remember that the only thing you truly have is TIME. and it is LIMITED.
Also, let me remind you of something; the ONLY thing you have to do in life is to better it. There is literally nothing else to do in life.
Make it your goal for 2023 to remember that you’re here only for a short amount of time. So make the best out of it. The day that you truly embody that, you will achieve overnight success.
Now that you’ve achieved that, you have the rest of your life to improve your condition.
Every day
1% better
