Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
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Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes.
- This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.
- WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES.
- but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal.
- to let another man define your own goals is to give up one of the most meaningful aspects of lifeā the definitive act of will which makes a man an individual.
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And thereās the crux. Is it worth giving up what I have to look for something better? I donāt knowā is it? Who can make that decision but you? But even by DECIDING TO LOOK, you go a long way toward making the choice.
- Iām not trying to send you out āon the roadā in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than thatā no one HAS to do something he doesnāt want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if thatās what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. Youāll have lots of company.