⁉️ TREE 511: There is no The Thing

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Have you seen those articles about ‘The 94 Things You Must Do Before 8 AM to Win The Day’? Turns out, you don’t. My days contain plenty of ‘Win’ (whatever that means). But the only thing I ‘Must Do Before 8 AM’ is sleep because I was working until midnight yesterday.¹ There are many different yet healthy patterns of work, play and rest.

4,200 is the common estimate for the number of religions on Earth. Christianity is the biggest. It comes in around 30,000 flavours.

Some people drink Pepsi on purpose.

‘The thing’ does not exist. Your thing does though.

Some thoughts:

• When someone is selling ‘The thing’, it is merely ‘the thing they are selling’. If it doesn’t resonate with you, move on without guilt or FOMO. Move on with haste if the seller is full of charisma and authority. The last thing you want is to get sucked into a thing that isn’t yours.

• Don’t define your thing too quickly or rigidly. You have more to discover about yourself and about life.

• Let other people have their thing, even if you don’t get it.

• There are deep patterns that are true for 99.9% of us. Unless you are a Margaret Thatcher-like freak of nature, you need 7–8 hours of sleep at night.

If you’ve ever driven across Arizona on I-10, you know there actually is a The Thing. It’s an odd museum stuffed with things of questionable provenance that’s definitely worth an hour or two of your time, at least is was when I was a young teenager.

The verses sound extremely influenced by Wolf Alice’s Smile – not a bad thing – and then is has a big singalong chorus. Happy Monday to you! (Spotify).

Grow slowly
Jeff

1. Things have changed since I wrote this. Christine works at a school now. These days I’m usually up by 7:30.