Wake Up and Rebuild Your Life in 2025 | Morning Motivational Speech
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What are the joys of simplicity in life?
Behind our house, there were rolling hills as far as the eye could see. And we would run them, we would run up and down until the sun disappeared over the horizon and we couldn't see our hands in front of our faces. In a sense, it bothers me that 25 years later, I even have to ask why something so simple and elementary could be fun. How something so out in the open could be profound, something so basic. Oh, how we've flipped the script. Now, today, I build and scratch and claw and fight and chase and seek and climb. But my soul just wants the hills. And you might hear that and think, well, how tragic to live in that gap, to exist without that which you so deeply desire. But let me reframe the scene.
I never gave up the hills, and neither did you. They're there, covered in complexity. deemed at some point to be just a little too simple, a little too elementary, so we built on top of them. We laid a foundation of external expectations. We erected structures that would bring us validation. In other words, we built someone else's world on top of our own, called it a day. And as in one of my favorite sayings, two things can be true at once. Moving into the world means responsibility. It means more complexity. But it doesn't negate the fact that the precious things are the simple things. And while we often spend our days fixated on distant horizons looking for those things, I continuously find that they're often under our very feet. The ground we walk on.
It might be more conventional to look back on those moments as childish, as kids doing what kids do, but I see it as more. In fact, I see it as the essence of life, the reason we're here. It need not be abandoned. And when you close your eyes, I wonder what that looks like for you now. The air cycling through your lungs, a smile on your face, your hair blown back by the wind. What is that moment? See, because when that's yours, you ignite. And if you think that's selfish, I have news for you. You pass that light right on to those around you. It comes through in the world you build and the structures you make. When you find those hills again, you give meaning to the meaningless. It's paint on the canvas. It's a melody to the song. And to say, oh, I don't have time for that.
It's like saying, I'll breathe later while your head is being held under water. No, it is the oxygen you need. We get one chance to do this, one ride here. And your gift need be presented to the world. Your heart should race just like it did when the setting sun was calling you in and nothing else mattered in the world. The entire universe is rooting for you to find those hills again. You have everything. You are everything you need. I just hope you'll summon the courage to grab it and hold on. It's a scene from a movie called Dead Poets Society. And this quote just really hit me, hit home. And to kind of explain this scene, basically Robin Williams is a teacher. He's teaching poetry and I think it's a boarding school.
And there's a bunch of kids around him, and he's explaining to them, you know, these are kids with ambitions. They want to be lawyers and doctors and businessmen. And he's saying, I get that, right? But here's why poetry matters. And so... It becomes a metaphor for life, essentially. So what he says is, to quote from Whitman, "'O me, O life, of the questions of these recurring, "'of the endless trains, of the faithless, "'of cities filled with the foolish, "'what good amid these, O me, O life?' And the answer is that you're here, that life exists, an identity, that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. In other words, with all the negativity, all the ups and downs, all the quote unquote, you know, terrible aspects of life, all the challenges, what good, why are we here? What's the point? And it's that it's gone on for millions of years before us, go on for millions of years after us, like a play that we can contribute one verse and the power in that, right?
Just waking up and understanding that we have the ability to create our own history, our own little universe, to change the way things are, to leave our mark. And so he's talking about, I mentioned the kids huddled around him. He's like, you want to be businessmen and lawyers and engineers and doctors. And that's incredible. It's a noble pursuit. We need those things to sustain life.
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