Whether we are talking, eating, listening, whatever we are doing, the reason we are here is to study ourselves. We study ourselves to find out how vast and uncomplicated our minds really are. We can only find this unbiased truth by our own direct experiences.
A risk taker will force themselves on others, threaten others, not out of passion but out of rationale. They justify their actions according to ideology, patriotism, religion and principal. This may be why the risk taker is young and the wise are old.
Since the advent of civilization, we have exchanged our natural harmony for ego orientated lifestyles. Clinging to our old habitual ways of doing things keeps us chained to a lifestyle that violates our true nature. We have the ways and means to liberate ourselves, just look.
Our independence should not be based on rigidity and immobility of character, but by keeping abreast of the times and changing with them. What endures is the unswerving directive, the inner law of your being, which determines all your actions.
Quote: Next day is a new day, do not pressure yourself if today did not meet your expectations.