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A Message for Young Men: Why You Are Anxious
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Why are you anxious? Can you name the cause? Do you think it’s the way you were raised?
Is it the culture? Your schooling? Your money? (There’s never enough.) Or the opposite sex?
Fair enough.
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Why are you anxious? Can you name the cause? Do you think it’s the way you were raised?
Is it the culture? Your schooling? Your money? (There’s never enough.) Or the opposite sex?
Fair enough.
You probably lack perfect parents. And god knows our culture won’t help you much either. And your schooling was truly abysmal. And yes, money’s tight for a young man your age.
And let’s not get started with women for now. That’s a subject for deep introspection.
And let’s not get started with women for now. That’s a subject for deep introspection.
So yes, you have reasons – good reasons – to be anxious. But I’d like to suggest something else.
Something else – something deeper – lies behind your anxiety. But before I reveal it, know this:
Something else – something deeper – lies behind your anxiety. But before I reveal it, know this:
Your anxiety is totally natural, my friend. It’s a feature, not a bug in your system. And the cure is as simple and scary as hell. (Well, scary for some, and a challenge for all.)
The reason you’re anxious and can’t make it stop?
Listen close.
The reason you’re anxious and can’t make it stop?
Listen close.
Your life is too small for you now.
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You were made for achievement, to accomplish far more than you’ve got on your resume yet. More mountains to summit, more chasms to bridge. More oceans to cross. Yet you pace like a cat in a cage.
Yours is the anxiety of the apex predator. The tiger feels anxious when locked behind bars. But this is no circus. This is your life. And the clock ticks its passing each day.
It is perfectly normal for a man such as you to feel anxious when locked in a cage.
It is perfectly normal for a man such as you to feel anxious when locked in a cage.
Even if the bars are just in your mind. Especially just bars in your mind.
Like the tiger was made to stalk and to kill, you were made to compete and to win. You’re a man. You need danger and adventure and risk. You need conquest, or you wither inside.
Like the tiger was made to stalk and to kill, you were made to compete and to win. You’re a man. You need danger and adventure and risk. You need conquest, or you wither inside.
I want you to think of a giant dark room. So big you can hear echoes bounce off the walls. A single light shines on the floor from above. On the floor is a chair. In the chair is a man.
A young man.
An anxious man.
You.
A young man.
An anxious man.
You.
You wait. You don’t venture into the darkness. Your self-imposed cage is that circle of light in the midst of that giant black room.
That room is potential. And you are the man who was made to illumine it. And yet you won’t go where your eyes cannot see.
That room is potential. And you are the man who was made to illumine it. And yet you won’t go where your eyes cannot see.
Get out of your chair. Step into the darkness. Push yourself to the limits of knowledge and skill and experience and comfort. Find out what’s out there, in the dark and unknown.
Will anxiety leave you at last? Of course not.
Will anxiety leave you at last? Of course not.
Anxiety.
He’s that friend who expects you to never give in. Who drags you out when you’d rather stay home. Out to the desert where the wild things are. Out to the dark unknown. Out where the dragon – *your dragon* – awaits you. Out to adventure, to treasure, to Fate.
He’s that friend who expects you to never give in. Who drags you out when you’d rather stay home. Out to the desert where the wild things are. Out to the dark unknown. Out where the dragon – *your dragon* – awaits you. Out to adventure, to treasure, to Fate.
It’s out of your circle of light. And way out past your comforting limits.
But you are a man. You are proto-steel. And steel – to be wielded – must be forged in the fire. You were made for this moment.
You were made for this moment.
But you are a man. You are proto-steel. And steel – to be wielded – must be forged in the fire. You were made for this moment.
You were made for this moment.
Don’t think that the sharp pain of fire means you’re failing. The heat of the fire means that you’re being forged. Forged for inevitable battle.
You will have what you need at the moment you need it.
So…
Get up.
Get out.
Get going.
Now.
You will have what you need at the moment you need it.
So…
Get up.
Get out.
Get going.
Now.
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
--Mark Twain
--Mark Twain
