Elysha and I walked halfway across the Golden Gate Bridge last weekend.
On the way back, I heard someone say:
“Not everyone can say they walked across the Golden Gate. Right?”
This annoyed me.
“Not everyone can say… ” is never a good reason to do anything.
We don’t do things to say we did things. Yes, we may eventually tell people that we did a thing — as I have done here — but you’ll never hear me rationalize a decision based upon the opportunity to say I did a thing at some point in the future.
Elysha and I walked across the Golden Gate Bridge because we wanted to. We thought it would be fun to stand high above the waters of San Fransisco Bay and take in the view.
You do something to experience it. Embrace it. Sear it into your mind as a lasting memory.
This is the reason to do something. .
Speaking about it after the fact can be lovely — especially if you tell the story well — but doing something to say it was done is dumb.
Don’t do things so you can brag about those doing things.
Do things because they are things you want to do.
