Thomas Murphy

What do you do if you have no ears, no nose, one leg, and your hands are melted together the next day?

Now, that's an extreme example.

But that common thread, it was Friedrich Nietzsche that said, he who has a why to live can bear any how.

Those are some old fancy words.

But what he was trying to tell us was, if you have some kind of meaning in your life, some kind of reason, you can go through anything.

You look at those kids that have single moms.

She can go through anything because she's got the greatest meaning in the world, the kid.

We have a generation, this is number one,

that is struggling more and more in the most technologically advanced civilization Earth has ever known, kids are saying, who am I?

What's my meaning in this hyper-reality that we live in?

Like, who am I?

They just go from thing to thing to thing.

And you ask any 15-year-old today, what do you want to do?

I don't know.

Maybe.

That's a huge conversation.

I talk to parents every day, but I need to take one step back because I gave you the first one.

Because that feeling of meaning or significance always leads someone to a feeling of hopelessness.

But the other common thread that every single person in this room shares, you and I share, every person you know, it's this feeling of human acceptance.

We're pack animals.