Making the most of every day

YOLO and FOMO. We live life wanting to make sure we don’t miss out on anything...but we should be asking “why do I fear missing out on these things?”. The truth is, in an age where there is more content then we can ever watch or read, where there are more vacations then we could ever go on in a lifetime, where there are more restaurants then I could ever enjoy...what will I spend my life on?

Scottie Scheffler after winning a PGA tournament

"I think I said something after the Byron [CJ Cup Byron Nelson] this year about like it feels like you work your whole life to celebrate winning a tournament for like a few minutes," he said. "It only lasts a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling.

"To win the Byron Nelson Championship at home, I literally worked my entire life to become good at golf to have an opportunity to win that tournament.

"You win it, you celebrate, get to hug my family, my sister's there, it's such an amazing moment. Then it's like, okay, what are we going to eat for dinner? Life goes on."

"It's just one of those deals," he went on. "I love the challenge. I love being able to play this game for a living. It's one of the greatest joys of my life, but does it fill the deepest wants and desires of my heart? Absolutely not."

"We work so hard for such little moments," said Scheffler. "I'm kind of sicko; I love putting in the work. I love getting to practice. I love getting to live out my dreams. But at the end of the day, sometimes I just don't understand the point."

"It's like showing up at the Masters every year; it's like why do I want to win this golf tournament so badly? Why do I want to win The Open Championship so badly?

"I don't know because, if I win, it's going to be awesome for two minutes. Then we're going to get to the next week, hey, you won two Majors this year; how important is it for you to win the FedExCup playoffs? And we're back here again."

Technology is, in many ways preventing us from being “in the moment” of life

The Vacation

By Wendell Berry

Once there was a man who filmed his vacation. He went flying down the river in his boat with his video camera to his eye, making a moving picture of the moving river upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly toward the end of his vacation. He showed his vacation to his camera, which pictured it, preserving it forever: the river, the trees, the sky, the light, the bow of his rushing boat behind which he stood with his camera preserving his vacation even as he was having it so that after he had had it he would still have it. It would be there. With a flick of a switch, there it would be. But he would not be in it. He would never be in it.

It isn’t bad to video or take some pictures on a vacation, but if have a constant need to “hold” on to these moments, we can’t actually be in it.

-Research tells us that the more pictures and videos we take, the less we remember the events going on in front of us.

The issue of sports gambling. Rather than enjoying things we feel like we need to be “invested” in things in order for it to be fun.

Do you want to be born once to die twice. Or born twice to live forever?