Ghost asks Dracula, “How can I be cool like you?
Dracula pulls down his Ray-Bans and says, “You just need two things: confidence and a dope-ass cloak.”
Having only average self-esteem and a hoodie, Ghost reflected, “That’s the coolest thing he could have said.”
Drak takes a drag ten miles long from his swisher sweet and blows a smoke ring. “And 600 years of un-living taught me it’s just about doing your own thing.”
Ghost: “Okay, that was the coolest thing to say.”
I don’t know if you’ve seen the new Nosferatu; that movie’s main character is a goofy-ass-looking dude, BUT he knows what he wants: something about a specific girl’s blood, a castle, and lots of pet mice. Dude is unapologetically him, and I got mad respect for that.
Anyway, I bring this up because anyone who wears a cape and travels only at night isn’t afraid to look silly when chasing what matters to them. We all could learn something from Count Orlok.
What we want is what we don’t have. And if we could get it without risk of looking silly, we’d already have it.
Cheap gyms don’t cause weight loss or improved health. If they did, my gym wouldn’t exist.
Fish and Broccoli don’t taste like pumpkin spice lattes. If they did, every nurse would be ripped and farting 24/7.
What I’m saying is that the gap between what you have and what you want will be filled with resistance. Most of it is in your head. It’s almost never been my budget or my willpower or “eating right for my type” and any other crock of sh*t that stopped me from getting the body and health I’m proud of.
It’s the stories about what others and, more importantly, ourselves will think about us if we fail, get it wrong, or give up for the 400th time.
What I can tell you is that we are not our thoughts.
And if we are not our thoughts, we are certainly not the thoughts of others.
We are always what we’re doing at this moment, and that looks a lot like a magnificently flawed and rare human being going after what matters to them and doing it the only way available to all of us, imperfectly.
