Live the same
There will always be the desire for someone else to experience what was incredible for us.
1 📍Include the location where your experience took place.
2 📝Share your anecdote, what you want others to try to do.
3 📷 Give us a picture of that incred.
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Another problem I had heard about — even from one of my friends — caught up with me pretty quickly, right on the train from the airport. I was sitting with the guy who had helped me buy a ticket. He was originally from Georgia, but after finishing his studies he had stayed in France. We sat together, talking. The train wasn’t crowded, plenty of free seats. Only one man stood by the doors without sitting down.
It turned out he was waiting. As soon as the passenger by the lost entrance focus, the guy by the door grabbed his backpack and jumped out — right through the closing doors at some suburban station. My new acquaintance told me: “This happens in Paris every day.”
The man who was robbed was sitting literally right in front of me. But I’m paranoid, hahaha, and always overly protective of my things. My backpack only opens from the side that’s against my back, and on public transport I always wear it on my chest. Pulling it off me would be nearly impossible. On top of that, I’d specifically bought a “camouflage” backpack — it looked old and shabby, nothing like a photo bag, even though it was actually expensive and made for photographers.
One of my friends once told me his own story when he came to Paris for a shoot. He was driving and, without realizing it, ended up in the Berlioz district. At a stoplight, two guys ran up to his car and tried to hijack it. They couldn’t break the window, but they managed to rip off a side mirror and dent the door.
Fortunately, nothing like that ever happened to me again. And despite all this, I was still amazed by the city - Paris left me with wonderful impressions. 2 replies
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Paris has always interested me, but I have also read a lot about the difficulties that one has to face in this city. The first one I had to deal with was Charles de Gaulle Airport. Many have written badly about it, and it often ranks high in various ratings for lost luggage and general chaos. Luckily, I traveled light - just one backpack, which I carried on board. It probably weighed twice as much, hahaha, but that was because of all my cameras, lenses and other equipment. Back then, no one weighed carry-on luggage - unlike now...
I arrived late at night. There was only one person working at passport control - and he was clearly not in the best mood. But when my turn came, the guy behind the glass suddenly smiled broadly. He spoke to me in Spanish (luckily, by then I already understood some of it and was able to answer). It turned out that he was from the Dominican Republic, from the city of Higuey – the same one I mentioned earlier – and I had been living in Bavaro, which is nearby, for several years. We chatted for a while, and, oddly enough, it was quite funny.
And then the second problem that always happens to me arose: I got lost at the airport. 😅 The plan was simple: take the train, change to the metro and get to the place in the 6th arrondissement where I rented a room. But I couldn’t even find the entrance to the train station.
Luckily, someone noticed my confusion. A guy came up, offered to help and not only walked me to the station, but also bought me a ticket. I completely forgot to exchange money for euros, and my Dominican Popular Bank card simply didn’t work anywhere in Europe during the entire trip. Luckily, I had cash with me – although only dollars and pesos… 0 reply
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𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪: "𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘"
𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧 N° 3️⃣4️⃣3️⃣: @gig
𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙄𝙎 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙄𝘿𝙀𝘼 𝙊𝙁 𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙋𝙄𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙎?
I assume this question talks about a permanent form of happiness. If I understand it right, a permanent state of contentment. And by human nature, as long as humans think there is such a thing as permanent contentment, like “when I achieve this or that, then I’ll be happy,” then you won’t really get the taste of happiness in your life. Because as long as you are convinced you need to get something else before you can find permanent happiness, you will never enjoy what you’re doing. You’ll always be chasing.
Human nature is such that no matter what kind of state of life we achieve, once the novelty wears off we want something else. Something new to experience, something new to get. We’ll think something must not be right in our lives and start to change again.
As long as you think there is such a thing as a permanent state of contentment, you’ll be disappointed. The truth is, it isn’t achievable, at least not through the external world. If you’re looking for a permanent state of contentment you need to go within, but that’s another subject and a long long journey. And one where most of us, including myself, aren’t fully ready for yet.
But if you realize you will not reach permanent contentment no matter what you get, and you can accept that, then you can live life without that as a goal. Instead, you enjoy everything that comes your way. You’ll have a mostly joyful life. And if you accept that there are times you won’t feel so happy, you’ll still have a joyful life without fear.
That’s the thing that comes closest to permanent happiness: living life and doing what you want because you enjoy it right now, knowing the feeling won’t last. If you can accept that, then you become a frictionless being.
𝙏𝙀𝙇𝙇 𝙈𝙀 𝙎𝙊𝙈𝙀𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙄𝙎 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝙆𝙉𝙊𝙒𝙉 𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝙔𝙊𝙐:
There are many things people don’t know about me. The me you get here is one version, adapted to the platform I’m speaking on. On social media, when you go too broadly, people lose interest. So you only get one aspect of me here, a distilled version optimized for the crypto audience.
But most of me isn’t that “normal.” In many aspects of life I’m very different from most people. I don’t try to keep secrets, I’ll answer whatever people ask, but if I posted a raw stream of my thoughts online, I probably wouldn’t have followers. Not because they’re rude or offensive, but because they’re so different from the mainstream, or hard to grasp unless you look at them from a certain detached perspective.
It’s not that the “me” on farcaster is fake, no, it’s a very real part of me. But it’s a very thin layer.
The other layers of me can be much, much, more useful for those who have interest in engaging with me on that level. Either way, anyone that pays some attention to my casts knows that I still blend some of those layers in my cast anyway, even if very often, very subtle.
But don’t underestimate subtle though, subtle is often best because if you can make someone get a certain insight, and he thinks he came to it all by himself, he will grow from it much faster than if you tried telling him that same thing.
𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙌𝙐𝘼𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙔 𝘿𝙊 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘼𝙋𝙋𝙍𝙀𝘾𝙄𝘼𝙏𝙀 𝙈𝙊𝙎𝙏 𝙄𝙉 𝘼𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙎𝙊𝙉?
Authenticity. Someone who is real and honest. Someone who doesn’t fake being interested in something they’re not, doesn’t just tell you what you want to hear. Someone you can have a real conversation with, being to being, not filtered through some kind of social contract filled with expectations.
𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙄𝙎 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙂𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙎𝙏 𝙑𝙄𝙍𝙏𝙐𝙀?
I just googled Virtue to make sure I understand what the word means, and it is usually described as behavior showing high moral standards. But honestly, I don’t think in terms of “moral standards.” I don’t do things because they’re considered moral by society. I just do what I want to do and don’t do what I don’t want to do.
And when something I do would harm another person unfairly, I just don’t want to do it. Not because I think “this makes me a bad person,” but simply because I don’t want to hurt others.
So I don’t act based on rules of what’s considered right. I do what feels right to me. It happens to line up with moral rules, but that’s not why I do it.
In this space, I would say my greatest virtue is that I don’t bullshit people for personal gain. I’ve been offered, especially during the last bull run, thousands of dollars to promote bullshit projects. I always refused, because I want to help people make money, not lose it so I can profit.
𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙄𝙎 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙈𝘼𝙄𝙉 𝘿𝙀𝙁𝙀𝘾𝙏?
That I spread myself too thin. That’s something I’m working on now, and actually making progress with. For the past weeks I’ve focused only on my app, and it’s ready to go in beta tomorrow.
But before, I was doing ten things at the same time. Developing an app, a poker bot, websites like nukesim, AI projects, making YouTube videos, writing Medium articles, setting up an SEO service, making music. Too many things at once. Because of that, I didn’t do one thing properly, and it wasted my potential.
It came from lack of discipline. When the boring part of something started, I jumped to something new. But that way you don’t move forward.
In the past half year, I’ve realized this. I’ve been working really hard to pick one main focus and get it done. Still, I shift a lot, and some days I waste time on side things, then lie to myself saying “those had to happen too.” But I know it’s just me lacking discipline, wavering commitment.
𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙄𝙎 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙁𝘼𝙑𝙊𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙀 𝙃𝙊𝘽𝘽𝙔?
Honestly, I don’t have hobbies just for the sake of hobbies. I really enjoy making money and doing business things. Almost everything I do, I only get into it if I see some way it could make money long term.
It’s not out of greed alone, but if I can’t see a way to monetize it, I feel like I’m wasting time. So my favorite hobby is finding ways to make money. I genuinely enjoy doing that, making it in creative ways or trying different things. I like when money comes from different sources. It might sound superficial, but it’s the truth.
𝙒𝙃𝙊 𝙒𝙊𝙐𝙇𝘿 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙇𝙄𝙆𝙀 𝙐𝙎 𝙏𝙊 𝘼𝙎𝙆 𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙎𝙀 𝙌𝙐𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎 𝙏𝙊?
Honestly, I don’t know. You mentioned you’ve already interviewed over 300 people, and I’ve been away for almost a year now. I have no idea who has been interviewed and who hasn’t! 6 replies
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