A life of ignoble ease

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life" How beautiful, I read these darling words yesterday by a man who has long passed from this earth...these words rang true, they resonated...like bells they tolled...
For I am ashamed to admit that as of late I have fallen into easy habits, petty entertainments, petty wants all used to dissipate time, a easy well worn slippery path to nowhere...twenty hours of online shopping and dramas on various channels a week...fleeting instantaneous rewards, that fail to, do not, can not feed the soul...and then yesterday I stumbled across those words, a rebuke on my entire lifestyle...it was a call to arms, to wake up, grow up and realise the ugly truth...that I was wasting my youth and life, pursuing unworthy pursuits like fashion, focused strictly on the external.
A few things that I will change are:
1) Procrastination - learn to stop
2) Exercise habits - dance, gym three times a week
3) Study habits - start learning meaningful things again
4) Setting goals - set my one year, three year and five year goal.
5) Meditation - meditate daily
6) Writing - start writing daily again
7) Creativity - spend time being creative, pursuing things that feed my soul

Living a worthwhile life

Living a worthwhile life, a goal that sounds mundane but which in my experience really is much harder than said to achieve. For starters what does a worthwhile life consist of? The thought keeps me awake at night.

Thin Skin and Thick Skin

As a child and being in possession of a shy temperament wary of strangers and new social situations my parents would often childe me with the phrase "you need to have a thicker skin". That is to have stronger armour against the vagaries of life, of other's opinions. The reason that this phrase has floated to the surface of my consciousness is because quite recently a dear friend mentioned that the reason why some men were more confident than others was because "they really didn't care that much" not because they were necessarily inherently better, wittier or more beautiful...but just simplistically because they cared less, had a thicker skin and therefore appeared more confident. Thinking about it, I have to agree ~