Mike Corey Instagram – If you’re struggling, read this.
Humans are built for 3 day hunts. 3 month treks. 3 year droughts.
And for 300,000 years that’s exactly what we did. Struggle. It’s a fundamental part of us. We cannot live without it. We’re so good at it, we create it ourselves when we don’t have it.
In the animal kingdom, we win no gold medal for swimming, seeing, sprinting, or climbing.
But we always place first in the decathlon. We can do everything.
The biting cold of the arctic, the thin air of the Andes, or the storms of the tropics. We arrive, we suffer, we survive. We dominate.
We fought other animals with stones & sticks.
Then, the elements, with fire & fur coats.
Now, we fight each other with gunpowder & steel.
For 300,000 years we had a cause to fight for. A purpose. A struggle. It was to survive.
So now, we find ourselves in the most peaceful time that has ever existed, given everything we dreamed of, and absolutely no need to suffer, yet now we struggle more than ever.
The Truth Is: You were built to struggle.
It is our default setting. We know no other way. Our brain is wired to always search for a puzzle to solve. Our body is wired to be pushed to its limit.
You cannot avoid it. You can only embrace it. So…
Run until you collapse, get lost when you travel, go camping in the winter, take dance lessons, learn to scuba dive, take Muay Thai.
Because if suffering is inevitable, you might as well choose how you do it. Otherwise I’ll find you yelling at me on Instagram about things “I failed to mention”
Choose struggle. Embrace Struggle.
After all, you’re built for it 🐉 | Posted on 06/Apr/2023 22:13:22
