Comment of the Week: "A Decent Life Is Worth Living"
Comment of the Week is from reader PolishKnight. Polish has left several insightful, interesting comments on several Solitary Beast posts. It was hard to choose just one comment to highlight this week.
One line from his comment on my post “5 Biggest Red Pill Copes” grabbed my attention.
This whole comment is thoughtful and spot on. I loved the last line, “a decent life is worth living”.
Middle Class Heroes
As a child in the 1980s and 90s, I grew up watching sitcoms and movies that featured normal, middle class families, in regular, suburban households.
Beloved shows like “Roseanne”,“ Family Matters”, and “Full House” depicted the adventures of blue collar dads who worked as policemen and factory workers. The kids had bikes, toys, and clothes that any average American child could relate with.
Obsession With Luxury
Since the introduction of social media like Facebook and Instagram, and reality shows depicting lavish lifestyles like Keeping Up the Kardashians, My Super Sweet Sixteen, etc., encourage people to compare their normal, mundane lives with the wealthy socialites who live on private jets and yachts.
My point being, you can’t be happy if you constantly compare yourself to anyone, especially billionaire celebrities or super ripped guys on Instagram.
I’ve written about this before in my posts “Instagram Is Making You Miserable” and “You Are Already Living Your Best Life”.
Comparing yourself to others means you are not feeling gratitude for the enormous blessings in your own life.
If you are reading this in the US, as most of my readers are, you are already one of the wealthiest .0001% of human beings to ever walk the face of the earth.
Even kings in the Victorian age didn’t have simple luxuries like unlimited fresh water, ice, and air conditioning that we take for granted every day.
As recently as 100 years ago, even wealthy industrialists journeyed for months to travel from New York City to London , instead of hours as we do today.
If you wanted to reach a family member or old friend, you waited weeks to mail them a letter, then more weeks to wait for them to send one back to you.
One of the most amazing things I experience every day is visiting an American grocery store. A “low end” grocery store is one that only carries one brand of cashew milk.
The sheer amount of options in US grocery stores boggles my mind every time.
For most human beings, life is better than it has ever been.
A Decent Life
If you are lucky enough to be reading this, your life probably isn’t that bad.
I’m encouraging you to feel blessed for the work you have, your living situation, your health, your friends and family.
Even if you think it sucks right now, put in the work to make it better, WHILE practicing extreme gratitude for everything you have.
As I write this, I’m sitting in my living room, in a average three bedroom house, in a mid-sized US city.
I own a blue collar business, write this blog, as well as operate an e-commerce company that helps men with a common problem, re-growing thinning hair and growing a thicker beard. Check it out at HairlineStrong.com.
My car was produced during the Bush Administration (the second one).
It’s an average, middle class, American life. I couldn’t be prouder.
I started from very little, and I built all these things:
a lovely home in the exact neighborhood I wanted to live in, in a city I love.
A business doing work I enjoy and that helps people,
& my e-commerce business that helps men feel confident by helping them regrow their hair.
I have close relationships with family, usually talking to my only brother every day, and my sisters a few times a week.
I earn enough money to save and invest, live without debt, plus a little extra to spoil my nieces and nephews with gifts.
It’s a decent life.
As PolishKnight said, I sometimes work “harder than I could ideally” (although I love my businesses and this blog so much, it never feels like “work”), but it’s well worth living.
I wish the same for you.
All the best to you gentlemen.
-Solitary Beast
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