LoGun Is Getting Emotional.

by Leigh (LoGun) on November 9, 2009 · No Comments

logun LoGun AI I wanted to slap him.

I wanted to snap at him with something like..

“Quit your whinging, grab your life by the balls and WAKE UP TO YOURSELF, MAN!”

But I don’t think that would’ve achieved anything close to what I wanted to achieve.

I went on a little road trip around Australia a little while ago and it was a very eye opening experience.

I got to see a perspective of the world that I haven’t seen for a very long time.

It reminded me just how far I’ve been able to come in just a few short years.

When you’re traveling around, you don’t really have that much of a say in the people you end up staying with.

Some people are amazing, they’ll open your eyes and fill your hearts with incredible stories. And then there’s some who… Well…

You wouldn’t normally choose to hang with.

I spent a week with one of those guys.

“But it’s just unfair. Why should they get all the opportunities? Why should they get all the chances?…

…There’s people out there who’ve been working much longer than they have and they don’t get those opportunities so why should they?”

And he just went on, and on, and on… And it upset me because he just couldn’t see it. Just like the old me couldn’t.

I remember how must frustration and anger that old mindset used to make me and how far from what I wanted to get it took me.

That mindset of:

- I’m only going to be happy when I can get those things in life that look so shiny, that look so amazing, that everyone else tells me that I need to get in order to be happy.

- Because I’m unhappy, it must be because there’s things in the outside world that are preventing me from doing what I want with my life.

- When I get that one lucky break, then I’m going to finally be happy. I just need that one little opportunity and then, finally, my life is going to be the way I want it to be.

And I remember how efficient it was at pushing everything I was chasing in my life away from me…

Do you think the women I so desperately desired because I thought they were going to be the long lost key to my happiness wanted to be around me?

Do you think the jobs that I so desperately craved because they represented my level of importance in the world were in my reach?

Do you think that illusive ‘happiness’ was ever just around the corner?

As I sat there and listened to him go on and on, I wanted to help him. I wanted to help him see how he was holding himself back. I wanted to help him find his strength and power.

But he wasn’t ready to hear it just yet.

So I didn’t push it. I just sat down. And let him keep going down the same path. We all have to walk our own journey.

At some point in time, he’s going to come to a point where he finds that his path isn’t getting him where he wants to be…

And then he might be ready to look at a different way that might help him get there.

And if he does, I’ll be there to help him because I know, from first hand experience, how much strength and courage it takes to walk this new path.

I know how many barriers and hurdles there are to overcome. And I know just how scary it can be.

And that’s what I love about this community we’ve built here, together.

It’s filled with strong Men, who’re able to take a good hard look at their life, at the way things are, take responsibility for them, and then take control of their life.

The AI community, this brotherhood of strength and courage, that inspires me every day to push myself, and challenge my world in ways that only a few short years ago, I thought was impossible.