Whoa, this week's a twofer...
#48 - Special Announcement(s) + This Week's Article About How Life Is A Practice
Today is a fun day.
I mean, come on, you just saw Baby Juice turn into Big Boy Juice, and he’s quite a ham. Oh and yeah, I have two Special Announcements as well. But the second is reserved for invested eyes only.
Announcement #1:
The Hue-Man Experience is excited to launch Substack’s new chat feature exclusively for our Paid Subscribers.
This private conversation space within the Substack app is a place where we can share short form ideas together. I imagine it will be a thoughtful space with provoking content because our community here thinks outside the box.
I posted the first discussion prompt right after publishing this article. Check it out :) More directions are below.
I’m excited to try this new feature with you. I imagine it will deepen our connection further, and I feel this private space is a quality perk for subscribers who give financial support to this work.
And as a special bonus today, those folks will also receive the second announcement later, down below.
How it works
Your participation is hereby formally requested. Let’s evolve this thing together and see what happens.
To join our chat, you’ll need to download the Substack app, available for both iOS and Android.
Chats are sent via the reader app, not email. I highly doubt you need more push notifications in your life, but hey, if you wanna talk about interesting stuff with us, you now know where to find the conversation.
I will say. The app is nice, and I personally use it. If you read my publication, I guarantee you will discover more you like on the app as well. For more Philosophy, check out
and which I enjoy.Only 2 Steps and You’re In
Download the app by clicking the button below. Chat is now available on both iOS and Android within the same app you read this publication on.
Open the app and tap the Chat icon. It looks like two bubbles in the bottom bar, and you’ll see a row for my chat inside. See you in there!
Life is a practice. You learn as you go.
#48 - When you ask for peace, you will be given experience. And you must make your peace from it.
“You can only lose what you cling to”.
—Buddha
Life is a series of events which teach you how to be yourself.
You start off as a child with a free spirit and a heart full of wonder. You’re inspired by the sparkling lights illuminating Astronauts and Famous Singers, and dream of one day being just like them.
Your impressionable youth points your focus outward, looking at others to tell you how to be in the world. Because of this, when adults tell you how unrealistic it would be to achieve the big dreams you want to build, you believe them.
Perhaps you allowed them to convince you to follow their dreams for your life instead of your own because you didn't know any better and figured they did.
And in the process, your own dreams never stopped whispering in the background…
"Hey, but what about us?"
And so you find yourself living a life that doesn’t feel like you. A life where your dreams languish in the background because of ancient ideas implanted by someone who was probably trying to do what they thought was the right thing at the time.
But when you find yourself living that life, what you do not want for yourself becomes clear. Layers of who you are not begin to surface and you observe them.
And then from that point you simply decide what to do. To step into the embodiment of what you do or do not want. Will you follow your own dream or someone else’s?
Life teaches you about you as you go
Doctors and Lawyers call it a "practice" for a reason. The science behind medicine is always developing so there are always new methods to learn. And we keep making new laws, so someone's gotta learn those too.
Life itself is a practice. It’s not something you just figure out and stop growing through while you’re still in your body here on Earth.
When you're a kid, there's this rushed feeling like you need to grow up quick to get busy in the world. You’re eager to become an adult for many reasons.
But life feels different when you grow up, doesn't it? Heck, look what happened to your world in just the past two and a half years…