Hello, hello!
Welcome to a new project!
This is 100 Things To Do Before the Sun Explodes, an online bucket list where my intention is to catalogue a variety of goals, projects, exercises, and pastimes that I personally believe will lead to some amount of insight for anyone out there who cares to listen.
Hopefully, that’s insight for both you and me.
Establishing “meaning” in this life is, needless to say, an arduous task for most. I don’t think that the journey to find meaning is one that necessarily ever gets completed in its entirety in one’s lifetime either. It happens little by little, in bits and pieces over the course of a life, and that in itself is part of the beauty.
Where am I going with this?
I believe, in most cases, that life is what you make of it. Entertaining desires that those around you have for the course of your life will always be an important thing to consider, but at the end of the day, your path is yours to carve.
And so, I’m here to share my experiences, and I hope that those reading will be willing to share theirs with me as well. We are social creatures after all, and I want to learn from those of you out there, as much as I hope that you can pick something up from me.
No one of us is a guru at everything, and instead of pretending like we are, why not reap the benefits of acting as guides, focusing our energy towards helping out those of us a few steps behind in any one given area?
Quite a few individuals out there are dealing with the same problems that you were facing last year, last week, or even yesterday. And the issue you’re struggling with today? Someone else conquered ages ago. We all tackle different forces in our own time, and through a community like this one, we can lean on each other’s knowledge through sharing experiences.
So, no, this will not be a list full of skydiving and bungee jumping. No shade to bungee jumping - it looks like fun!
My hope is for items on this list to be things that I believe hold some sort of secret for us to uncover—secrets for how to live a more fulfilling life and to find meaning in the small things around us.
I don’t want to prescribe that meaning either. I want you to experiment, and to find that meaning out for yourselves.
Every Monday morning, I’ll post something here, and give you all my thoughts on it. Dive into the history, explain my reasoning, give some examples and anecdotes… whatever the occasion calls for.
If that sounds up your alley, Subscribe at whatever tier makes sense for you.
And one day soon, I’ll give some explanation for the silly title I gave this Substack in the first place.
For now, have a good week, and I’ll see you at 100.