Secret

Excuses.

I can find an excuse for everything. I am the most elaborate liar you will ever meet. The extent to which I can bullshit is so unbelievable, most people do not initially believe it.

The Secret

Don’t give them a reason to doubt you.

I have a great time. I am not any different than any other kid my age. Except that I realized one thing, as long as you take care of your responsibilities, the rest of the time is yours to fill. These people will drink, smoke, and ignore their future. They have so much to do, and they are wasting it. I can do whatever I want,  but I make sure to take care of my work, my other obligations, my family, and my future before I have fun.

American society is definitively stuck in the now. I have no problem with the now, but working for the now with no regard for the later is a dangerous way to play the game. Intelligent people are wasting their talent. Idiots who avoid time wasting are flying to the top of society.

As a result, I hereby state that I’m only going to live in the present. The past is irrelevant, the future is a waste of time.

I’ll be attending a college next year, either UCLA, UCBerkeley, Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, or UPenn. Wherever I’m accepted. And I don’t fear not succeeding there, I fear being unimportant there. Unimportance and mediocrity are my greatest, however irrational, fears.
I recently asked out the one and only girl that I truly enjoy speaking with. She’s not the first girl I’ve been with, nor will she be the last. However, I’ve been contemplating my time investment in women that I don’t enjoy. Sadly, they’re far more numerous than the rare “diamond in the rough.” Realistically speaking, this relationship will not work out. She’s a year younger than I am, much more busy. It’s tough to find a moment with her. But overall, I could not be happier with my decisions. Not only did I take action on something I truly wanted, it ended up successful, for now.
I am an anglophile. It’s a disease here on the West Coast. You can hardly find a place without a Union Jack plastered on a wall. Britpop is an epidemic. I also have a unnatural attraction to personalities of the UK (Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Churchill, Bentham, and most importantly, Disraeli).

Benjamin Disraeli, in my opinion, one of the greatest leaders of the modern era, once said

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

I hereby affirm that I will act on every impulse I truly believe will increase my happiness. This experiment begins today, and will last approximately 2 weeks. I’ll update occasionally.
I encourage everyone to begin “Project Disraeli” for themselves, and see what changes.