Sahil Bloom

I do often phrase these things.

And I think that there was a Stoic philosopher who said that some of these things should be viewed as taxes on all of the benefit that you can get.

They are costs of entry.

And it is the recognition that there is a version of you that would dream of doing that.

The 95 year old version of you that is bedridden and not able to will dream and wish they could go back and do a 445 in the morning workout.

I was on a hard run on Monday of this week doing this hard workout and it was freezing cold out and I was in the middle of a really tough like rep of this run and I was running up a hill and I was miserable.

I was like, this is stupid.

I don't need to do this.

I'm not really training for a race.

Why am I putting myself through this?

And it just so happened that this hill came over this crest and was sort of right alongside this cemetery.

And I had this sensation while I was running by it of how lucky am I to get to suffer through this right now?

Like there are all of these people who lived their own lives, who have their own stories, all of these things.

And they would give anything to have the opportunity to endure this suffering that I'm enduring right now.

And someday I wouldn't give anything to be in this moment.

And so I do agree.

I mean, embracing the fullness of who we are.

There's this concept in ancient Indian culture of Kala Chakra, like the wheel of time, that time naturally goes through on a cosmic level and on an individual level, these cycles of creation, destruction, and then rebirth.

And that you cannot bemoan any one of those elements because they are all a natural part of cosmic time, of who you are, of your own being and of your own cycle.

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