My favorite day SO FAR of my glorious adventures with Benrik, THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE, would be day 25. “Things you will never do before you die: tick the boxes to come to terms with the fact that you will never…” then it goes on to list a few hundred tasks (feel like batman, marry a prince/princess, ride off into the sunset, run with wolves, climb Everest…) and gives you space to check off the tasks that you will never do in your life. At first this day made me laugh, like all the others, but then I really thought about it. I would never complete this list before I die.
I particularly like this day because of the humility and euphoria it taught me. No one really thinks about the opportunities they will miss in life, they’re too busy concentrating on how much they can get done. Really, one shouldn’t focus themselves on thing in life. You’ll miss everything else in life, if you live only thinking about that one thing. The list opened my eyes to that. As I read through it I thought “well, what have I been doing for the past fifteen years, I’ve only done about ten things on this list of three hundred or so,” and that epiphany led me to just throw out my old rules and really just dig in and live life. Thank you, Benrik. You really did change my life this time.
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