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<h1 style="text-align: center;">What are you building?</h1>
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<p>Do you ever have one of those moments where you realize that, as awesome as your life may be over all, there are still a myriad of things you would change right away if you could?</p>
<p>I was sitting at work today, and all I could think about was this stupid blog. I kept thinking about how work was cool, and making money was fun and all, but damn I’d so much rather be sitting in a cafe on a pier, overlooking the ocean, hammering the keys on my laptop and cranking out pages of a book, maybe flirt with an enticing blond.</p>
<p>Life feels like it’s slowing down lately. I just haven’t been happy with where I am. I have a good job that pays well, and a nice place – but there is so much more I want to do that I don’t feel free to do. At times I think we all feel like this – stagnate is really the word for it – we all have those days.</p>
<p>When I was in school I was always fascinated by music. Music moved me in ways that very few other forms of artistic expression have ever been able to. Naturally, I was a band geek. I picked up and played as many instruments as I could! It was always so enjoyable to listen to the band playing through a rich piece of music and hearing how my part blended into or, at times, carried the melody. I liked listening to a professional symphony play a song, and then I liked listening to my shitty high school band play the same piece and get it almost perfect after a year of practice – music was touching, it was rewarding, it was my thing.</p>
<p>However, no matter what instrument I managed to get my hands on and play, one instrument always seemed to get the better of me: <strong>Guitar</strong>.</p>
<p>I just could not play the damn things. I didn’t understand how to strum one rhythm with one hand, make chords with the other, tap my foot to keep time, and sing all simultaneously. I simply could not do it. I remember telling my dad – who was an avid guitarist back in the day – that I wanted to play guitar. He bought me a cheap, beat up acoustic and found a tutor for me. I still could not get the hang of it, though, so I quit. It always haunted me that I let go of it so easily; partly, I think, because being a guitar player has always been a dream of mine.</p>
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<p>Graduation time came from <a href="https://www.russian-mates.com/at-some-point-high-school-cant-matter/">high school</a>, and everyone was excited. We were all talking about how great it was going to be to start our lives! Oh man all the chicks we’ll bag in college (lol)! Life was all opportunities. I remember walking across the stage, and not being very impressed with myself. All I could think about was how, for all of this, I had never learned how to play guitar. It seems stupid, but in my head I was a failure. I promised myself as I walked across the stage that I would learn how to play guitar.</p>
<p>The next day I stole my girlfriend’s electric, learned how to read tabs and picked coolest sounding metal riff I could think of and started trying to play it. A week later I could play the damn thing in my sleep. I worked my fingers to the bone learning that song, figuring out the riffs and intricacies, the transitions to chorus, I even learned the words and tried to mouth them while playing. My friend Jon, who was like a guitar god, told me that if I was serious about learning to play, I would practice until my fingers bled – I literally did that during that first week.</p>
<p>I always thought that by knowing how to play guitar I’d be cooler or more interesting, or maybe better with chicks. My life felt empty and <em>stagnate</em>, and learning guitar – I just knew – was the key to getting everything pumping again.</p>
<p>I was right and wrong. Sure, guitar made me more interesting, but not because I could do something unique – because guitar opened up a whole new way for me to express myself. The connection you have when you play an instrument with other people is one of a kind. I would sit with my friend Brett and we’d acoustic jam for hours. I learned a lot about myself by playing guitar – singing and playing and seeing what emotions would come out; those are the things that make you more interesting, multifaceted, and more unique as an individual. <strong>It isn’t so much the skill, as it is the experiences the skills lead you to. </strong></p>
<p>Nutting up and teaching myself how to play guitar when my life felt stagnate taught me how to achieve something on my own by my will. It taught me how to get my head in the game, focus on something, and see it through to the end.</p>
<p>My life feels stagnate, ensnaring, and stale because I realize that the work I put in today, will build the man I will be tomorrow. I am laying the foundations for my future – and I can’t do that chained up in a 9 to five, getting fat and lazy, neglecting a social life in favor of a netflix account! I want to build my future man, I want to build an incredible life and I want to look back on it with a huge smile as I’m sliding <em>fucking hard</em> into my grave and say, “Worth every moment.”</p>
<p>When I start to feel like this, like I have lately, I like to sit back and map out my current course – see where it leads me. I compare that to my goals and my vision of my life and see what I need to change, what I need to move, and what I need to cut away. I want you all to remember that life is a process, ongoing, and the ground work you lay today will dictate what kind of man you will be tomorrow. What kind of a life are you making? What future are you shaping? What kind of man are you building?</p>
<p>Do you even know?</p>
<p>I hope so, because one day those shoes will be yours to fill, and like it or not you will be stuck with them.</p>
<p>You hear women say they “live without regret” – they have a nonchalant attitude, get way too drunk way too often, beat their bodies to hell, and consume enough aggregate length of cock to circle the moon and back and as long as they can say ‘WOO! NO REGRETS!’ everything will be okay. That isn’t how life works, and those people will have regrets. These trendy YOLO party animal women, they will have regrets starting the moment they hit the wall.</p>
<p>I’m writing this post to you all today so that you wont end up like that. You can have the life you want, as many women as you want, be the dream – it’s all possible, and it can be done entirely without regret <em>if you put in the right steps up front</em>. Build yourself into the man you want to be, don’t let fate dictate the course of your life.</p>
<p>Take control of everything and live well. Figure out what has you stalling and fix it! Doing it right now and laying the proper foundation early will save you hours of work and years of headache later, trust me.</p>
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