But it is a good idea to take certain life lessons and integrate them into your future life decisions.

All the decisions you made in the moment of were perfect. What were more interested in what informs future behavior.

Example, tight leggings, but loose pants. Or a tight shirt, yet a loose jacket.

Nietzsche once said that utilitarianism is a slave mentality. In America right now, it also seems that utilitarianism is our major guiding ethos. That everything we must do must be prudent, yield high utility, be productive, not wasteful, help elevate the common good, and be practical.

But, perhaps we should start thinking beyond utility. Utility is boring, and anti-aesthetic.

Also, I think that the notion that something is practical it’s just a way to trick ourselves into buying something that we think is good for us.

Also, practicality is boring because if we all just wanted to be practical, there would be no innovation. The most practical car would either be a Toyota Camry, a Prius, or a Honda accord, or some other boring car.

Even loud and audacious cars like Lamborghini exist because they are not practical. They are cool and sexy because they are not practical.

For example, the Lamborghini scissor doors are not very practical, yet they are very cool, exotic, and sexy.

Even certain fun leisure activities like powerlifting are technically not practical. In what situations in water day living would I need to lift a 475 pound object off the ground? The way I make my living is using a laptop and nowadays, a phone— not through brute physical strength.

Practicality is when we no longer have the audacious nature in which we could posit our own goals and ends. If you only want to do things which are practical, you are just a beast of burden.

Also, one can also make the argument that having a high muscle mass and low body fat percentage is not practical. Yet, it is the height of apex and beauty.

Something that I’ve learned and discovered: I have the most fun when I do things which are both difficult and thrilling, which are within my own means.

For example, I’ve been doing these one armed kettle bell swings with my 105 pound kettle bell, which I try to bring up into a “clean” position. It is quite challenging, difficult, yet it is thrilling and exciting. Whenever I do it, I must focus, hype myself up, and also use chalk.

Therefore in life, perhaps we should pursue more things which are both difficult and thrilling to us. We must have certain challenges for ourselves which requires supreme focus, and an element of danger. It is unpredictability and a sense of potential danger which makes things fun and thrilling for us.

The worst life is life in which we are unengaged. And when are we the most unengaged? We are unengaged when things become too predictable, lack challenge and difficulty, and are boring.

I just turned 34 years old, considering that my birthday is in 1988. Some quick thoughts:

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