It is about what you can do to enhance the life experience of another.
“Had a kid reach out on my birthday:
‘I wouldn’t be who I am, if you didn’t exist.’
Dangle a billion dollars over my head or give me the opportunity to be ‘that guy for that kid’ and that money will dangle until they put me in a wooden box.
That’s why you do it.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
What’s the whole point?
What is the end goal?
Is it to acquire extreme wealth so you can lease a bunch of stuff (that usually doesn’t contribute to happiness, anyway) for a short period of time, that we falsely believe is “ours”.
A pastor at Church said this years ago: “Everything you think you own will be owned by somebody else in less than one lifetime.”
It puts things in perspective as you chase down items to acquire. That new car is only new for a few weeks, anyway.
I think the meaning to life is much bigger and deeper than trading a bunch of your time all to earn enough tokens to trade them in for a jetski.
While I don’t think there is anything wrong with wealth, cars, or jet skis, for that matter, I do think those things should be secondary objectives in life and not primary ones.
I’m not going to sit here and get all philosophical because philosophy is well above my pay grade, but I truly believe this life is not about what we can do for ourselves, but what we can do for others.
And to take it a step further, I believe this life is about using our platforms to enhance the overall life experience of others and empower people to build their personal self-worth and confidence.
Temporarily motivating someone is one thing.
But when you can consistently lead by example and help people change their identity for the better through the harnessing and expressions of their own intrinsic desires and motivations, that’s an entirely different ball game.
“I wouldn’t be who I am, if you didn’t exist.”
When I got that message on my birthday, it hit me like a ton of bricks.
Here I am going through the day to day, a mile a minute, putting out this fire and that fire, and then you get a message like that?
It makes everything else that goes on this equation we call life seem trivial.
That is what I believe this whole life thing is about.
The Lord has blessed me in many ways and I am forever grateful for His blessings, but having the opportunity to be able to be “that guy for that kid” is something I’ll truly cherish forever.
Far more than new rims or a jetski.
