Thread by @TheBrometheus

A man needs a unified purpose to his life he can strive after every day. An elevator pitch he can recite to himself.

When I ask “What’s the purpose of your life?” do you struggle to find an answer?

You need to find your elevator pitch.

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Here’s my elevator pitch:

If I have 3 children, and they have 3 children, and they have 3 children, and they have 3 children, and they have 3 children, that’s 243 biological descendants in the next 150 years.

They rely upon me for freedom and prosperity. My choices echo.

The people who run this world want my daughters enslaved as sex workers and my sons shackled in financial slavery, to feed on them as commodities. Both pathways lead to addiction and suicide.

I am the line separating my descendants from slavery and death.

The purpose of my life is not luxury or to make anyone happy, it’s to claw and scrape and stab my way to as much power as possible to establish freedom for my children while maintaining my good moral standing and honor so my children don’t collapse into decadence and evil.

I must win at all costs, but the method of winning determines the health of my surviving legacy.

If I fail, my descendants fall into rape and chains.

Legacy is all.

But I must also take time to enjoy what makes life worthwhile, to show them affection and warmth, so they do not become machines of fury or burn out and abandon the discipline I teach them.

This gets me up every morning and fuels me during the day. When I’m exhausted, I pause to reflect on the goodness of my life and enjoy what I’ve created thus far, especially time with my wife and children.

What’s your elevator pitch? What’s the purpose of your life?

Find it.

If you took six bullets and knew you were dying but had to drag your carcass up for one last stand, would your mission motivate you enough?

If the answer is no, your mission is trash.

Find what you’d die for.

Because one day you might be called to.