00:00We want to feel special. We want to believe that the same road which led billions into quiet
00:06frustration and respectable despair will somehow take us to bliss. Same direction, same vehicle,
00:14same fuel. Yet we imagine ourselves heading to a different destination. On what basis? You see,
00:20we are on a highway, smooth, polished, well lit. And that's the problem. We are all treading the
00:26same certified path. Be born, get educated, get a job, get married, buy a house, buy a car,
00:32raise kids, are you with your spouse, maybe divorce, maybe remarried, grow old, die. The
00:37holy eight-step process to death. A conveyor belt dressed up as life. And the tragedy? Most of us
00:44are already halfway through. Four steps done, four more to go. But we still live in denial. We insist.
00:49No, no, my life is different. Paradise is waiting for me. Comforting delusions. You're not walking
00:55your path. You're just walking the default. And the default has only one destination. Unconscious
01:00consumption, shallow success, inner hollowness, and finally, death without ever having lived.
01:07If you want a new destination, you must take a new path. And for that, you must first stop walking.
01:13Stand still. Ask. Turn around. The beaten path doesn't take you forward. It beats you down.
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