This is the full twenty fifth and final chapter of my book Awesomeness: An Amateur Potpourri of a How-To-Guide.
See part 24: Twenty Mile Marching Amidst Shiny Objects, here.
I wish I could say I’ve taken my own advice. Sure, I have to one extent or another, but I’m by no means perfect. Awesomeness, it would seem, is not something we can ever truly achieve. Instead, it’s an ideal to which we must strive for.
In this short book I hope I have illustrated some ways that can help you attain this worthwhile ideal. Indeed, from my own experience, it’s an ebb and flow sort of affair. At times I’ll feel like I’ve all but mastered it. Then I fall back down into a funk. Then I will rise again like the Phoenix from the ashes of mediocrity only to come back down once again.
But upon reflection, each time I get up, I get up from a higher plateau and reach a higher peak than I did before. When viewed this way, I can relax and not worry so much about my next inevitable descent. Falling down is no reason to get depressed. Remember, we only live once. So enjoy your life!
If the pursuit of awesomeness becomes so overwhelming as to actually impede your own happiness, then it becomes counterproductive. Awesomeness should increase your happiness. Happiness and awesomeness should be joined at the hip like two peas in a pod, not adversaries. You cannot conquer happiness any more than you can conquer awesomeness. Instead, happiness comes from enjoying the path, not the destination. Because if life is the path, then the only destination to reach is death. So if you think that “getting there” will make you happy, unfortunately, you will never be happy.
Instead, you should enjoy the path. But the path along the road toward of awesomeness is so much better than the road of mediocrity.
It is my sincerest hope that this book has aided you along that path.
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