Put it Down, Turn it Off, Quit the Band
If the book is bad, put it down and find another one. You don’t have to suffer through because someone else said it was great.
If the music is bad, turn it off. Likewise, the movie, the TV show, the play, the game, the skit, the scene, the job, the career, the relationship, the car, the pursuit of endless piles of things, the bar, the campaign, college. Quit the band. Quit the show.
My name is Harry Love and I have some bad news for you. You don’t have time. You’re going to die. You have time for a few songs, a few movies, a few things. You have time to help a few people. You have time for a few causes.
Here’s the test. While you’re doing whatever it is you’re doing, imagine you have two years to live. Imagine yourself on your death bed, looking at yourself now from your death bed watching you doing what you’re doing.
Will you be happy you read the book, sang the song, spent two hours seeing this movie, working that job, played the game? To keep up appearances? To pass the time? Were you really trapped in your position? Was there really nothing you could have done to save your relationship? Or leave a bad one?
Could you really not have given up everything to help those people who needed it?
Just passing time? Are you serious? Just passing time? How much would the death-bed you give for one minute of the time you have now?
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