TrueLife - Tribute to Fathers: Defiant Anchors Smashing Chaos’s Illusions

Episode Date: June 23, 2020

One on One Video Call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingSupport the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. Use Promocode TRUELIFE for Get 25% off monthly or 30% off the annual plan For the first yearhttps://www.district216.com/I wish Father’s Day could be everyday. Fathers play an important role in shaping our environment. In this episode we will connect the dots between fathers & society. Additionally we will explore how the baby boomers attitudes toward the mortality experience & how their ideas are currently shaping our world. One on One Video call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingSupport the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkg

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The poem is Angels with Rifles. The track, I Am Sorrow, I Am Lust by Kodak Serafini, check out the entire song at the end of the cast. Yeah, how's it everybody? Loa. You guys enjoying your father's day out there? I know I am. It's been a beautiful day. I can't even begin to tell you how exciting it has been for me today. Talk to my dad.

Talk to my pop. Old friends, new friends. Nick, what's up, buddy? I'm just talking about how awesome Father's Day is, man. Thank you for being here, bro. I hope you're having a phenomenal day. So I had some things happen to me last night. Like, nothing crazy, but like some new insights that I kind of wanted to share with everybody

because Libby, I love you, lady. Some of my love to the family, till Neil, happy Father's Day. So I had this insight last night about this whole situation. You know, just everything going on in the world right now. Like this seems like a little bit chaotic.

And the first thing that you have to understand, what up, Tom? The first thing everybody has to understand is that it has to be this way. And if you can understand that, like I know it doesn't seem like there's any rhyme or reason and it's a bit chaotic.

But if we can start with this, it has to be this way. That alleviates so much tension and pressure. Just understand that it has to be this way. From the way, this insight that I had last night, it just made me think about things completely different. If you look at the demographics,

like a lot of the baby boomers are moving on. Right? And for some of us like me, that means my parents are baby boomers. And they are entering this phase of life where, you know, they are understanding their own mortality. they're getting to they are getting on board the mortality experience and it's you know it's tough

it's tough for all of us we've those of us who have been close to death or seeing people we love pass away we truly understand and if you haven't been touched by someone you love passing away get ready because it'll definitely happen to you so i don't want to get too far ahead of myself if If we understand that the largest group of people on the earth, the baby boomers, are moving on to the next level, that means so is their ideas. Their ideas have run the world for so long. And they all, they did the best they could. You know, if you look at some things we look at like corporate greed or we look at this

idea of everybody should have a big house and a, and a SUV and a boat and go to the river. Like these are all lofty goals and they're awesome. But those are ideas that belong to the last few decades. And what we're seeing now is it's a rebirth. It's a rebirth of our society. And what I hear from the news is I hear the story about like, you know, oh no, everyone's going to catch COVID and oh no, there's all these riots and stuff like that. And it seems like, it seems like, it seems like,

But if we just tweaked a few words the story could be different instead of the story being oh my gosh everything's going to go down There's going to be economic chaos the market's going to crash instead of that I think what we're seeing is heroes being born right right now there's brand new leaders that are starting to step up and Carve new paths for people to follow There's people stepping up that are collecting their friends and their loved ones and and families are growing tighter than they've ever been before and if you don't believe me look outside your house right now like i i don't know where you guys live but i promise you if you if you just open your eyes and look you'll see families together

you'll see kids riding bikes you know in a lockdown like prior to the lockdown everyone was like stuck in their house and and you know going to work and going to school and all stressed out but after this lock down. Can you see the silver lining in there? Can you see the beauty of it? Like, people are out and about. Maybe you don't have a job right now, but maybe that allows you time to focus on your family. Maybe that allows you to go and pursue something that you've always wanted to pursue. And like that's what's happening to me right now. And like, I wish you could see my, I got like goosebumps talking about it. So inspired by every one of you that I'm talking to right now. And let me just tell you about like kind of what's happening to me like three weeks ago i had 300 friends

that i was talking to on facebook i've got over 3,000 now like 3,000 like i you have no idea how inspiring it is to see people that you knew when you were growing up and just and just see their lives and see how well they're doing and see the smiles on their face and i've reconnected with so many friends from like elementary school and kindergarten and you know what no one's in the same position but everybody have talked to is they got a big smile on their face and they're they're telling me these great stories and so the second part of the insight that I had was a different way that I've been looking at life and it's really helped me out and I'm going to try to explain it here so it's a little difficult to get

the words out, so please bear with me while I try to chart this course. Everybody has different philosophies in life, and some take a religious aspect. Some of them take a really hardworking aspect, but everybody has these dogmas, everybody has these ideas for success and how to live their life and their own strategies. And this is a brand new strategy that's probably been around forever, but I've just begun to employ it and it's really helped me out. And here it is. When you think about your life, think about you as the author of a story. Life, your life, everybody in your life is part of this grand opera, this grand, unbelievable story that's unfolding in front of you.

And if you take some time to realize that you're the author of that, you are the one in charge of writing the story. I know it's a little abstract, but if you just bear with me, it'll totally make sense. So think about it when you when you wake up in the morning You ever wake up in the morning and all of a sudden you don't feel that good and then you the first person you meet is like someone that just kind of zaps your energy Like that's That's your mood You know what I mean by that? It's not the person you met that's you

You wake up you feel that way You are 100% responsible for everything that happens in your life and when as soon as you accept that That's when you can begin living the best life and you've ever lived in your life. That's when you can start making your story, like this grand book that you're writing, that's your story and your story alone, you can start putting in these poetic metaphors,

and you can start putting in these beautiful slices of life that you'll remember forever. And then once you start doing that, you can start doing it for other people. You can start showing other people, hey, here's a little thing that I did that made my life awesome. And then you go and you do it for them, and you show them how to do it.

I'm not sure that came out exactly the way it was in my head, as clear as it was in my head. Awesome. Mom, you have no idea. I love you. Like, if you put your hands out like that much, like, there's not even enough words to describe how much I love you, Mom. My entire family, I was sitting here thinking today about my whole family and just how lucky it had to be. You know, I was talking to my, uh, my dad today and he was telling me a story. This is kind of what got me going is that like he's facing mortality.

Like he, he just put his grandparents, I'm sorry, my grandparents, my father has spent a lot of time with his parents who were getting really old to the point where they can't take care of themselves anymore. And as my dad was taking care of them, you know, I could. see some changes in him begin to happen. And it made him contemplate his mortality. And as I would talk to him, I could see him having questions. And the questions he was having was like, oh my gosh, I'm going to, this is going to be me pretty soon. Pretty soon it's going to be me going here. Pretty soon soon it's going to be me that can't take care of myself. And then he started saying things like, you know, George, I've always tried to do my best. And I had to stop her. right there. I go, dad, I see what's happening. I see it. You're not, you're right there.

You see the fact that the road is getting shorter and you're probably asking yourself, like all of us do. We always beat ourselves up, right? And so in my mind, I'm thinking, he's probably wondering and beating himself up about stuff like, oh my gosh, you know what, I made a horrible mistake here. I treated my son this way, I treated my daughter that way, I shooted my wife this way and he's holding on to these things and and that's the last thing you want to do when you get to the end of your road. And so I told him, I said, dad, you're probably thinking all these things. But let me tell you, everything you did was perfect.

Everything you did, it had to be that way. If it didn't happen that way, then I wouldn't be who I am. Right? And that's the same thing for everybody out there that I'm talking to him. Like when you see adversity or you think some bad things are happening to you and they are bad and they are tragic, but it has to be that way. Those are lessons that you have to learn. And if you can look at life from that angle, if you can look at it and understand that

these tragedies or this chaos in your life that you think is so self-destructive and going to ruin you forever, that's going to be the very one thing that makes you the strongest. You know, so when when there's something in your life, life that you don't want to do, like, oh, how to do this thing today. Like, that's the one thing you should be doing. Like, as soon as you get the feeling of, like, like, disgust or anger or, like, that's your body telling you, hey, you have to work on this thing. And life will continue to present you with that one situation until you solve it. And if you ignore it, it'll just get, it'll get worse and worse and bigger and bigger until it blows completely

up. You know, I'm so thankful for every one of you. And I, I, I'm having a tremendous day. Another quick story I had about today. I woke up and my, man, my daughter and my wife made this amazing little gift for me. It was like, I went downstairs and they had like a little, like a bowl of water. Like I think of a really big bowl. And next to the bowl were like these little pieces of paper. And there was just instructions there.

It says, Dad, I love you. Put this piece of paper into the bowl of water. And so I take the paper, I put it into the bowl of water. and this origami flower just opens up in front of me. I'm like, whoa, it was so amazing. I'll post a video of it in a little bit. And so there was three pieces of paper. The second one was a little bit bigger,

and I put that in the water, and it just kind of opens up like this flower. But inside this one, there's a message in there from my daughter written in her own hand, and it's like, Dad, I love you. And I'm like, I made me want to cry. So then I put in the third one, and it's like this big, bunched-up black piece of paper,

and I put it in the water, and it just slowly opens up into like this big lightning bolt cloud and in there's a message from my wife and you know that's how my day began so so stoked so I decided I'm going to run down and get some like pancakes

and some French toast at this little local place down here it's called Risenstein if you guys ever come to Hawaii Milalani Rise and Shine hands down the best breakfast on this whole island just so you know and so I drive down to the place where I normally go on Sundays and get a little

breakfast, but as I pull into the parking lot, it's pretty chaotic. Like, you know, you can tell that it's Father's Day, you know, and I, everyone is ordering from this spot, so it's really busy, and as I'm driving, and I got this smile on my face, but I can see everyone like, it's chaos, like people are going the wrong way and they're trying to back out a spot that they should be turning into, and, you know, if you go on a regular day, everyone knows that you go counterclockwise, but today everyone was like, this way, this way, that way. And so I, parked and I had to sit down and wait for my food and I'm I'm sitting there just watching this chaos and it looks in what in some ways it looks just it looks like chaos I'm like dude what are these people doing

you're totally driving the wrong way there and then I start noticing the people that are that are driving you know it's not the normal people I see it's like younger guys and then younger girls and then I see some some lovely wives and I see some moms and then it hits me I'm like you know why people driving all, you know why it's kind of chaotic down here? Because all the dads, all the dads are at home. And everybody's going out doing stuff for their dads today. See if dads know how to drive it, they know you got to go counterclockwise right there. But when you take dads out of the mix, guess what? It's chaos, man. You got to have the dads there. So I was sitting there thinking about that. I was just dying laughing. I'm like, that's what it is. All the dads are chilling at

home today. And so the streets are kind of chaos. And it just made me realize how much order dads bring to this world. And, you know, I know, I say it a lot, a lot, a lot, but I love every one of you. And I've, to the people I've talked to lately, my old friends and my new friends and the friends I'm going to make, man, thank you. Thank you. I hope you choose to believe in yourself. And I hope some of the things I'm saying help make your life a little bit better. I hope some of these strategies that I've been using to make me feel good that you can take in your life and make you feel good. And I hope it works that way. But anyways, I just wanted to say thank you to everybody.

I love you guys. This is my Father's Day tribute to everybody out there. And, you know, that's it. All right. Aloha. I love you guys. Thank you.