Eddie Pinero

There's a simple question that I like to ask as the sun comes up and the coffee brews.

Am I living today like it's an obligation or something more?

Is it an automatic continuation of the past or a methodical move towards a future that lights me up?

And these aren't small distinctions, right?

I've lived both ways.

I've felt what it's like to feel both.

I remember going to work and joking around that a flat tire would be a real treat.

That's not accountability.

That's not control over

That's essentially living life as a jellyfish floating along with the tide.

And while the lack of required output, innovation, and planning may have felt like a win in the moment, or a burden lifted off my shoulders at the time, deprived me of that which resides in the soul of every human being alive.

purpose personal agency see you can only go so far so long being the spectator of your own journey you can only go so long looking out the window before you wonder just what it'd be like to be behind the wheel when we put our actions up against the question why

It astounds me how many things are done because it's what we've always done.

We act like we're expected to act.

Think like we're expected to think.

See who we're expected to see.

But expected by whom?

Some of my greatest breakthroughs in life emerged after being asked why by people I look up to or respect.

Why have you accepted that?

That's your income?