How to have the adventure of your life

How can we make our lives as fulfilling and meaningful as possible in a world when so much of life can seem mundane and mediocre.

In this blog I'm going to explore one way that this may be possible and how do attempt it.

I have already discussed the importance of telling the truth and what can be achieved when you commit to telling the truth and how it can help keep your life in balance and peace. However there is another consequence of telling the truth that I haven't discussed yet.

And that is that telling the truth may be the thing that leads to the best possible outcome, maybe not the immediate outcome, but the long term outcome.

The reason telling the truth can lead to an adventure is because we don't really know what we want from life. There are some things we obviously don't want, but it's harder than we think to be certain about what we actually want. Therefore telling the truth will hopefully direct us towards what is and could become honest and good in our lives.

I'll concede that 'the truth' is a complicated concept, sometimes there are multiple truths to one scenario. So how do we work out which one to focus on? My hunch is that the truth that sits at the top of the hierarchy is the one that boils down to love. The love for my girlfriend overpowers the fact that she looks fat in those jeans, although I'm lieing by saying she doesn't, buried in the scenario is a deeper truth. The truth that I love her.

I've just finished the incredible book 'The subtle art of not giving a f*ck' by Mark Manson and he talked about how Russians are stereotypically brutally honest. He said the reason for this was that the amount of lieing that took place during Communist Russia had taught Russians just how damaging lieing can be, and also just how beneficial telling the most mundane truth can be. He loved his time there and wrote that this phenomenon had a large part to do with it.

In conclusion I would say that although telling the truth can be hard and seem unnecessary in the moment. In the long run when you look back at your decisions and you know that they were truthful at the time you will have less regrets and more trust in yourself. Unexpected yet necessary things will have happened and although you may have experienced some momentary pain, you will have prevented a whole heep of delayed suffering.

Until next time,

BxP