Go All in, Go All the Way.
- americanmaniaczc
- May 5, 2020
- 4 min read
Being big pot committed in cards, and in life far outweighs the sad choice of never taking your shot.
Hate your job? Then commit more than you have ever committed to any job ever. Seriously. You might find out the problem was you, and your lack of commitment all along. What’s the negative? You end up hating your job more? Maybe? But hate is hate, once you’re at the level of “Hating,” the degrees are negligible. The risk causation to the positive effect, and the possible big pot winnings far outweighs the already stale state you were at the beginning of this journey. Still hating your job vs. finding out you not only have a career on your hands, but there is a vast amount of skills to still learn, and develop. It’s a no brainer experiment.
Having relationship trouble, don’t know if he or she is the one? Go all in. Commit more than you have ever committed to him or her before. Learn every nuance about each other, physically, mentally, and emotionally; good and bad. What’s the worst that could happen? Something still ends that was about to end anyway? That seems like a pretty lame aversion to risk compared to the possible positive outcome of having a new recharged relationship that now includes a best friend, girlfriend or boyfriend, and forever life partner.
Have you always wanted to go out of your comfort zone and attempt to learn a new skill? Something as aggressive as boxing or as peaceful, and different as painting modern art? Do it. Go all in. Push all of your chips into the pot. What could possibly happen that is so devastating? You lose the hand? You lose all of your chips, so what? You find out you suck at something you never attempted before, that’s just called life. Even more importantly how else are you going to find out what you are good at? You’re going to have to go all in on a lot of things, and suck, till you find out what you are even marginally average at. Then you stick to your averagely skilled activity, and one day you become great at it. That’s how great things happen. It’s not magic. It’s going all in on something, no matter the risk, or uncertainty.
This philosophy was the de facto state of all past generations, especially within the sovereign individual mindset of the American culture. What has changed? Why are people choosing comfortability, and allowing uncertainties to dictate whether or not to go all in on everything from relationships to careers. The hint of trouble, and this generation bails out of real life, and nose dives into their phones. Their security blanket of social media, streaming service dramas, and hashtagging.
#binged(insert whatever drama you want here)
None of this means anything. Even more depressing it’s all so clearly risk aversion. Our parents, aunts, uncles, older cousins, and peers from a generation gone by; they all seem more content, and happy. Not because there was some pot of gold at every corner when they were becoming adults back in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. There was just as much economic, and global turmoil back then, as there is now. The 70’s?! They were a financial disaster, no one was making money. And, yet all of our descendents took risks, went after skill sets, careers, relationships, and families without a 100% certainty they would work, or they were even the right fit. But now- they wake up happy, and in a loving family. Close to retirement, looking forward to July’s in the backyard bbqing in a hawaiian shirt surrounded by friends, and family. The easy path, and choice didn’t get him or her there.
So what is so different about this day and age? It’s certainly not that there was more money, or freedom back then. There wasn’t. There was a specific healthy and open attitude towards life. Our older generations had confidence in taking risks, and working towards happiness. Today the direct opposite is happening. If the happiness doesn’t come instantly, or easily like the streaming shows, and hashtag trends that give us immediate shallow gratification we are all ready to bounce out. It’s really a shame.
We live in an age neatly designed and packaged by computer science, logic, rational thought, and our perceived physical limitations. Think about it? How dare you defy what you think your limitations are if you have been educated only to believe in logic and rational thought? This generation subscribes to that like it’s the gospel for life. It’s destroyed our personal autonomy.
Don’t let it. Start shifting the way we look at finding happiness. Start off by defying what’s physically hard for you, tell your body to fuck off, and do something anyway every once in a while. Love and career? If logic says something is going wrong, then you should pull the plug. Fuck that, go all in and really find out. Pulling the plug is computer science, not living life. I fear the majority of our generation will become lonely family-less people interacting through hashtags, and watching Netflix dramas together via the Houseparty app. All the while having remote jobs that don’t pay enough to own a house.
Fuck that. Learn a tough skill to earn real money. Buy that house, and work on the relationship that isn’t working. Start a family, and invite your friends over to watch that same Netflix show but this time around on a projector in the backyard at night, after a long fulfilling day of BBQing with the family.
Let Bluto and the Animal House crew articulate it for you:
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