From the Desk of Maverick Brenton.
Subject: Taking what you want.
It’s another lonely evening in a tropical paradise, eating oysters and smoking tobacco while wearing a $14,000 Swiss watch that I paid for without thinking about. I’m having a glass of red wine, slightly chilled, and am at my favourite restaurant which is quieter than usual. Scooters buzz past on the street outside. People walk by chatting. I am just sitting here thinking about life, as I always do.
Somehow I’ve ended up moderately successful, but still haven’t put my finger on how, been trying to figure that out recently. Maybe it’s because I sacrificed everything and went through my own version of hell. Maybe it’s because I decided to listen to my gut instinct and do what I was born to do. But things aren’t much different now, just more comfortable.
One recurring thought I’ve been having is how pathetically full of shit the average man is. He means nothing that he says, and all he does is talk; about the way he wishes things were, about the life he wishes he had, about all the things he wishes he could do.
But what does he do, to make that happen?
Nothing.
He just talks shit. Runs his mouth. Jerks off in his head about the life he somehow believes he will one day have even though he has done sweet FUCK ALL to get it.
People who live in the western world are completely oblivious to the harsh realities of life. I know this because I’m a professional money taker and it’s my expertise to see through everything that people say. It’s my craft. My obsession. To look into your eyes and smell your soul. To hear the heartbeat of the average man and it’s weak, pussified flutter while he eats his low fat yoghurt like the spineless faggot that he is.
He believes that everything is going to be ok, even if he does nothing, and I don’t understand this. Through the lens of my mind…my understanding of reality is that if you do X then you will get Y. It’s physics, cause and effect, basic principles of the universe - so how do you expect anything to be different next year if you change nothing?
Many talk, but very few do, and it’s the doers who get anything and everything they have ever wanted out of life. It is the DOERS who win the spoils of war and live a life of great envy because they understand that if they want something, then they have to take it without asking anyone for permission.
I used to be like them in some ways.
I used to look at my watch and count the seconds as they ticked past.
I used to wander off in my mind to a place that was better, because where I was sucked so bad I couldn’t look around and accept it.
The difference is that I was dreaming of the exact life I am now living. I dreamt of it for years. I yearned for the freedom…until one day I woke up with it. I believed it before I could see it.
But between those dreams and the reality I created, was more pain and suffering than the common man is willing to endure. Years of staring at walls wondering why I couldn’t be like them, hours of sleepless evenings lying awake looking at shadows in the night, long days of doing what I didn’t care about for money I thought was real.
My skin would tingle with envy when I seen men living how I wanted to live. My heart would char itself from a fire that burned day and night. The one question I needed answered remained unanswered, until I was ready..
How do I be like them?
Getting what you want out of life is very simple gentlemen.
Just shut the fuck up and take it.
Stop talking shit about who you want to be and what you want to do.
Stop asking people who are not you, and who don’t have what you want, what you should do.
You are dying as I write these words. I am dying as I write these words. Time will take us both back into the dirt from which we came. But I will go down swinging, smoking cigars, and living exactly how I fucking want to.
I’m far from perfect. But I’m still here and I’m living my life exactly how I want to. I’m doing what I want, making more money than I need, and addicted to nicotine and caffeine like a crackhead to his pipe.
What about you, friendo?
When all is said and done and the timer of life ticks over to finished - what stories will you have?
Until next time.
~ Maverick Brenton
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