"You Don’t Have to Be So Serious, All the Time"

The Weekly Read #12, "You Don’t Have to Be So Serious, All the Time"

Friends.  Do you ever feel like time moves so fast?  I do.  Maybe you’re the opposite.  Regardless, isn’t it interesting how subjective and malleable time can be?  You know what time does when you have fun: it flies.  So if I want it to slow down, I have to stop having fun?  What the heck?

I don’t think that’s necessarily true, but there is definitely some truth in it!  I think making a conscious effort to be present and aware throughout the entire day can slow down time more.  It at least keeps you more aware so that you can more finely recollect the experiences of your day. (It is most apparent that time is flying when you can’t even remember what the hell you did yesterday.)

Anyways, that was a little brain fart that I had to dust the keys off and wake up the “Writer” side of my brain.  This week, we are talking about the fact that some people just try to be so dang serious all the time! And I am included in this categorization of people at times.  

Before I started typing this newsletter today, many ideas for topics bounced around my brain, but none seemed to meet the standard for what I want this to be.  I was waiting for something that I felt was “genius” or “groundbreaking".  You may think there are hardly times where ideas of those magnitudes arrive in my brain, but some of these ideas truly are to me.  Regardless, I think I ultimately just don’t want to waste yours or my time.  Still, the worry to be excellent, fresh, unique, new, jaw-dropping all the time is downright exhausting. 

The times that I have struck comedic, musical, or conversational gold are rarely born in the pursuit of greatness.  They tend to come when I am joking around with friends, noodling on the guitar, or straight-up talking shit with someone.  It is in these moments when we don’t try to squeeze the juice from life that the juice will come pouring down. 

It is often ourselves in the way of going wherever we want to go, being whoever we want to be, and doing whatever things we want to do.  We obstruct our own path in many ways, but aspiring to be something bigger than ourselves is most certainly a devious little nail in the road.  

This newsletter took a slightly different path than I intended, but I guess that makes for this to be a perfect example of not taking it too seriously.  Life doesn’t have to be so serious all the time.  There are plenty of moments when she calls for that already.  No need to make more of ‘em.  That’s all on this topic for today..

I hope your week is going absolutely swell.  I love what this brand and community is and is becoming.  If you missed the email the other day, we are starting a book club.  If you’d like to join, please email me back on here or DM me.  We are reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and will be meeting via Zoom every other Sunday starting next Sunday.  I made some new pieces and I’ll attach them below.  The dress shirts are 1/1s that I reworked and the STAR pieces are here to stay a while.  I love you guys.

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