What is the true gain?

Choices

  Today was the first time in 26 years I truly noticed that I was over with having fun. What has changed? It wasn't that I didn't want to have fun. It was that fact that my idea of fun had changed. I didn't want to spend sleepless nights grinding away at a game where the only prize at the end was a "you won" screen. I didn't want to sit in some random bar drinking and playing pool while a bunch of idiots come over to me spewing random words to entice me in bed. I wanted to have the type of fun that got me here. The endless long nights driving from state to state. The sights that, as a child, I thought would be impossible to see. The stories from random strangers while laying inside a broken tent. I wanted to still learn.

 We have spent so much of our time wasting away trying to get to the "next level" but what is that really. As I create my goals for today, I really want to think about the challenges that brought me here and the new challenges I want to encounter. See? There was a difference from saying I will encounter to I want to encounter. Everything we do has a cause and effect. Whether we choose to think about it or not, we choose to go down to that bare knowing full well that those guys will come over and talk to us. Same with a video game. We know that taking that side quest is going to have us fighting additional monsters that may or may not be necessary to engage with. 

 I just want to open the discussion on next steps starting with choices. When hitting the rock of adulthood, what are your next steps, what are your choices? That will at the end have you understanding your true gain. It will have you understanding your true purpose of it all.