The Mind - Motivational Video - Charles Bukowski

The Mind - Motivational Video - Charles Bukowski

Your life is your life, don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission
Be on the watch
There are ways out
There is a light, somewhere
it may not be much light, but...
it beats the darkness.
Be on the watch
The gods will offer you chances
Know them.
Take them.
You can’t beat death, but...
you can beat death in life...
sometimes.
And the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
Your life is your life.
Know it while you have it.
You are marvelous
The gods wait to delight...
in you.
if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
otherwise,
don’t even start.
if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
This could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives,
jobs...
and maybe your mind.
Go all the way.
It could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail,
It could mean
derision,
mockery,
isolation.
Isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your endurance,
of how much you really want to do it.
And you’ll do it.
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with fire.
do it,
do it,
do it.
Do it.
all the way
All The Way.
You will ride life
straight to perfect laughter,
its the only good fight
there is.
Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us
because our destiny lies above us.