Take advantage of the days off by becoming stronger for the days on.
When it’s time for rest, rest. The downtime is much less than you think it is. It’s much less than society will tell you it is.
If you work when it’s time to work and rest when it’s time to rest… you’re fighting a losing battle. For when the work doubles and the ocean slams you against the rocks, you aren’t prepared. The chaos is building when you’re resting and when you’re working.
The energy of your competition is never lost. It’s gathering. Therefore if you spend half of your time working, 40% of the other time you must spend preparing. The remaining time is to recover.
Of your 100 years on this earth, spend 50 years working, 40 years preparing, and 10 years resting. This is the perfect balance.
Take joy in it all–The preparation, the work, and the relief you get when the system is allowed to cool. For the relaxation is much deeper when you’re tired. You get more of the allocated 10%, breaking the laws of physics. An intangible that never existed before you.
Humanity is an invisible hand of the universe. The untrained mind will follow the path of least resistance, reverting to an ultimate state of equilibrium after the chaos. All living beings are agents of the overarching energy forces that govern us.
There is nothing human about what you face. The universe is humanity; though humanity is not the universe. There is no fighting against it, only enduring.
Society will tell you, relax, take some time off. Why think? Why write? Why seek the universe’s perspective?
The gravity of the inevitable black hole is pulling like electricity, burning, tempting, begging for a reaction.
When you’re away they are human, observe them. When life decides to stop on a dime and go in a different direction, they’re crushed by sudden change in direction, like astronauts flying 1000 miles per hour without space suits.
They distract themselves with worldly indulgences to cope. Like the event horizon of a black hole–There is a point of no return.
Experiences are irreversible. When you live life according to your own thoughts and actions, your experience is unique. Copying others only gets you a similar output of what someone else has experienced. You can watch that movie for free, live your own.
Life will require you to fight. The other part is preparation. Attempting to fight the ocean during a hurricane is a much, much smaller example of the actual battle we face against the universe.
You don’t try to control the ocean. If you know a storm is coming, prepare your boat for the beating. For if and when the hurricane dissipates, you’re stronger for it.
But that doesn’t mean the storm isn’t coming back — it will. Stronger than ever, in more numbers. Because it is also preparing for you, the stronger version of you.
Because you are human, you are also preparing the universe for you even as you prepare for it. Feeding energy into the world, taking from it, creating a whirlpool of potential energy, ready to turn kinetic.
On a macro scale, it will always win, but don’t look too far into the future, that’s a trap.
Take it one battle at a time, as the war will leave you hopeless, another trick of the universe.
The only way to see past this is to merely make a game out of it. A game of life or death… it is life or death. The game you’ll never win and spend the majority of your life fighting against and preparing for.
Therefore when you fight the ocean, know you’re fighting a battle you will lose. Learn to see the ocean’s perspective and go with the waves, utilizing the ocean’s own energy for your own gain.
It’s the only way.
There are preparers and preparees just as there are leaders and followers. Why do we do this all if there is an inevitable end? To make the movie that much greater, and so that those we love can have a greater experience as well. After all, that is the reward.