Rob Dial

Now I'm pissed.

Oh, fuck off everybody.

Right?

Life is always going to go wrong in some sort of way.

There's always going to be stress and uncertainty and problems and chaos.

The question is, will you abandon yourself every single time it gets uncomfortable or can you stay rooted in peace even when things are uncertain?

The way I like to think of it is like the big giant oak tree.

It's like, you know, you'll see a hurricane come through or you'll see a tornado come through and it will just wreck everything.

But there's always like one big oak tree.

Where it's like, no matter how crazy the winds get, that oak tree is so deeply rooted into the ground, nothing is going to sway it.

Can you have that oak tree energy, right?

Our lives are not just big moments.

Our lives are a culmination of millions of tiny moments throughout our hopefully 90 to 100 years while we're here.

The best way I've ever heard it...

described as this.

You're born, you have a set of circumstances, and then you die.

That's it.

That's the simplest way of life.

You're born, you have a set of circumstances, and you die.

The meaning that you give those experiences of your life