Surprisingly adequate life of 20-year-old Hunter S. Thompson

1. What is the main issue of human life?

Lines, converts to his friend Logan Hume (Hume Logan), Thompson warned that any advice is only a reflection of the one who gives this advice:

- Giving advice to anyone who asks what to do with my life - it means to be selfish. Only a fool would take the liberty to point out to another person in a trembling finger at the nail on the head, on the right the ultimate goal.

But to judge others for this request is not going to Thompson. Addressing the lines of Shakespeare, the writer reminds us that life - is a series of difficult decisions:

- "To be or not to be: that is the question. What more noble: to bear the blows of fate frantic - il against a sea of ​​adversity arm in the battle to join... "And it's a really difficult question: go with the flow, or to strive for the goal? Perhaps it can be called the most important question of life. These choices each of us makes a conscious or unconscious.

Few people understand this! Think of the decisions that have influenced your life. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's been the same choice: go with the flow or to move against him.

2. How to find an answer to the main question?

- The easiest way - to choose the least resistance, and there aimlessly.

The answer to the question and the tragedy of life is that we are trying to get to the target, and not to themselves. We choose the target, it requires us to certain actions, and we are making them. We have to adjust to the requirements of a concept that has no real equivalent.

As a child, everyone wants to be a firefighter abstract. I'm pretty sure that now you have the fire is no longer want. Why? Because your world has changed. Do not fire changed, and you.

William Gibson called these internal changes "microcultures personality", writer Austin Kleon says that "you represent a what to let into your life, "and Paula Scher graphic designer believes that we combine and analyze the knowledge in accordance with their nature.

This was written and Thompson:

- Every man is the sum of his experiences, reactions to the experience. The more varied and rich experience you get, the greater the change itself and change their view of the world.

It happens again and again. When you react, you learn, and new experience radically changes the perspective. Is it not foolish to try to change their lives in accordance with the purpose that we see on a daily basis from a new angle? It seems the only thing that can be obtained in such a race - it is a neurosis.

3. How to move to the goal and not lose yourself?

The answer to the main question of life, however, has nothing to do with the set goals. Thompson advises not to give false notions of success and strive to find their own personal mission:

- To invest all their energies in some abstract goal of at least unwise. We do not want to become firemen, bankers, police officers or doctors. We strive to be themselves.

Do not misunderstand me: I am not saying that you can not be a firefighter, a banker or a doctor. Just aim is to meet the person, not the person has to adjust to the target. In each person together heredity and environment influence to the result to create a creature with certain abilities and desires, including the desire to act so that his life has become meaningful. The person should be someone, to mean something.

In my understanding, the formula looks like this: a person must choose the path that suits his abilities and allows to live with maximum efficiency, to realize their desires. At the same time it will meet their needs, it will move toward the goal, and realizes the potential to protect themselves from frustration and burnout.

In general, you need to choose the way of life that you love. The goal - the concept of a secondary, what matters is how you move along this path.

And, of course - even funny to talk about it - you have to act exactly as he decided for himself. Otherwise other people will determine your goals for you, but it means that you give up defining an act of will, the one that makes you the person and personality.

4. And if we do nothing?

Thompson said this:

- If a person will procrastinate, to delay the adoption of this major decision, for it will decide the circumstances.

Choose: to remain among those who has been forced to follow a certain path, or seriously to seek its own. Do not look for the goal. Decide how you want to live and then find a way to earn money, keeping his route.

To summarize

Hunter Thompson returns to the idea that life and its significance depends on what we decide:

- I'm not going to send you to Valhalla quest, just pointing out that it is not necessary to accept that your life slips. You have so many opportunities. And no one is obliged to engage in business unloved until the end of life.