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Back in the good ole days, your mommy and daddy were told by Mr. TV that if they worked hard and honest they would get a house, a car and afford a family. Nowadays, we all have houses, cars, yachts, spaceships and swimming pools through our favourite Netflix series. If only our well meaning high school teachers completed their good old advice "you can become whoever you want" with "if you just buy the right videogame".
Dear LoL champion Omniknight Geralt of Cheetos. When you are playing on your console of choice, all controller, the console itself and the fluorescent screen before you become an extension of you. You are immersed in them, and they become part of you. Your brain only allows you to become aware of these items as parts seperate of yourself when they malfunction. So, when your oily sausage fingers clock enough hours stroking, chocking and straight fucking the controller device in your hand it will give out and you will enter a state of shock and trauma until you get the replacement.
Here's my proposition to you: Just like the controller was broken, you will one day die. Your certain future death is something very personal, your death belongs to you. You cannot give your death to someone else and noone can take your death away from you. You cannot share your death and in the same way you cannot share your existence. Your existence is yours and in its core there exists your most unique essence. Your ownmost.
You can't be whoever you want, but you can become yourself.
Most people try to find a reason or goal to do hard things, to read hard books and to follow hard exercises.
I am not asking you to believe in yourself. I am asking you to start studying hard books and lifting heavy weights so you can discover yourself. I promise that ex-post-facto your reasons and goals for forcing yourself to do hard things will appear to you.
They are already there, inside you, it's just that your time and libido are captured by shitty liberal capitalist numbing machinations such as videogames and porn.
Only if you know who you are and what you want, can you anchor yourself correctly in this world.
References: Heidegger, Zizek, Mathew 7:7
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