Life is variance. No other way around it. Dread it. Run from it. It will swallow you up like a tsunami and carry you to places you've not dared imagine - both good and bad. All you have to do, indeed all you can do, is embrace it.
Life is short. No other way around that. Choose the safest, most conservative and low variance route possible and you may still be unpleasantly surprised at some point. Or even worse - at the end.
Life is awesome. As a human you are a giant pool of possibilities - maybe you'll be the next Phil Ivey. Maybe you'll reach the top 1% of the 1% of people who get to live their dreams. Maybe you'll party with Dan Bilzerian and make more money from poker than God. Or maybe not. Maybe you'll keep losing and losing, blaming long stretches of running like death and downswings and the Gods of Variance. Maybe you'll hit rock bottom and contemplate suicide - surely it can't be much worse than the lowest of lows? But dying in your bed, many years from know, what would you give for one chance - just one chance - to come back and
try to go for what you want. I mean really try - no more excuses, no more bull**** about your mortgage, responsibilities, "not enough time in the day" and "being realistic". Live at the edge of what you thought possible, one foot firmly planted outside your comfort zone at all times and maybe, just maybe you will have lived a life worth living.
A life on your own terms. A life in which you're more than just a number in a some company's spreadsheet. A cog in a corporate machine, boxed in all nice and obedient with little more autonomy than a snow white lab rat, running mindlessly on its wheel in between experiments until it can't run anymore and is replaced by a younger, healthier model. A machine that doesn't understand you and doesn't want to understand you. It only understands one thing - profit. That is what it wants and it demands productivity. It's ok though because you've got healthcare, a decent salary and a couple days off every week and, if you're really lucky - 30 days of annual leave.
If I've learned anything in my 33 years on this beautiful blue & green planet of ours, it's this: no matter what you do, there are no guarantees in life.
This is the story of a man choosing to walk the way of variance.
Wish me luck
Last edited by Pr4ff; 10-13-2018 at 11:13 AM.