A Message for the Young and Hungry Castaways

From the desk of Elijah “The Realist”
Subj: How to get to heaven
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To get to heaven sometimes you gotta spend some time in hell.

Hardship is what builds you and hardship can ALSO be what breaks you… if you let it. 

Broken down or built up, the choice is ALWAYS 100% yours.

You can build yourself UP from the ground or you can be pounded DOWN into the ground. 

Either is absolutely FINE with me.

Like the girls in Thailand say — up to you.

A Message for the Young and Hungry Castaways

Did you ever see that movie Cast Away, starring Tom Hanks?

Tom Hanks plays a normal man who’s in a plane crash and he’s the ONLY survivor of his plane crash.

He drifted onto an island, and he STAYED on that island for FOUR years. And after 4 years he decided to make a move and LEAVE the island.

And he made it.

He found his way right back to civilization.

And that’s that. He was BACK.

But … he was STILL an outsider there.

He was STILL very alone, with ALL those people, because he’d been gone for 4 very LONG years.

So who’s gonna WAIT for you for 4 years?

Nobody.

So he was LEFT with HIMSELF, just like when he was on the island.

The movie ENDS with Tom Hanks sitting in a car at an intersection. And he looks this way and he looks that way and he looks in FRONT of him, and that’s that.

He has the option to go WHEREVER he wants to go.

He did his time, his very LONG 4 years.

Now he’s FREE to do WHATEVER it is that he wants.

I spent five years in the jungle, in Asia.

Five years ago, I gave up EVERYTHING that I had.

I sold it, I gave it ALL away or I put it in the DUMPSTER.

I SOLD my car, got RID of ALL of my furniture, gave my DOGS away, and I went to my OWN island, where I LIVED for 5 long YEARS.

But for ME… on MY island… I was building something: I was building my future.

And I spent five cold LONG years doing exactly that and there were people around me but I did not even see them, I couldn’t even hear them.

They weren’t actually REALLY even there. It was just ME doing my OWN thing.

People would try to talk to me but I would be deaf to them.

If you walked in front of me, I was literally BLIND to you.

You couldn’t treat me like a PERSON that was there because I WASN’T actually REALLY there.

I might’ve been there physically, but I wasn’t there with you, mentally.

I couldn’t even have a conversation with you. You wouldn’t ever get a response from me.

We wouldn’t even converse.

I was BUSY.

I was on my very OWN island, building what I have now.

And NOW I’m BACK.

I’m right BACK at my intersection.

I can go THAT way. I can go THIS way. I can go that way.

Because I did my time, you see, I did my 5 LONG very COLD years.

I put in that TIME to be able to do whatever it is that I WANT to do RIGHT NOW.

It was a long-term thing, it did NOT happen overnight, it took me 5  LONG and COLD very DARK years.

But NOW I am HERE at my intersection.

And just like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, there’s NOBODY here for me.

There’s NO friends, there’s NO family, there is NO nothing.

It’s me like it always was. Like it always WILL be.

Because that’s truly what we HAVE, if we want to ever do something extraordinary.

If we want to do something extraordinary; it’s just us, it’s just people like us.

There are NO groups of people who do extraordinary things. It’s only single people.

It’s PEOPLE that give up everything else in pursuit of their goal.

Now Tom Hanks didn’t pursue his goal. Everything was just TAKEN from him.

I willingly gave up ALL in exchange to gain ALL. And it worked out wonderfully for me.

But was it worth it?

Giving up EVERYTHING in order to gain EVERYTHING?

Yeah, it was worth it.

Who else could be young, FREE and RICH all at the SAME TIME?

MANY people are RICH… but they’re NOT young.

MANY people are FREE… but they’re NOT rich.

MANY people are FREE and RICH but they are NOT young.

So was it worth it?

Yeah, hell yeah… it was god damn worth it.

I’d do it all over again in a fucking heartbeat.

I GIVE ALL to GET ALL… ALL the fucking time… ALL day… EVERY SINGLE Fucking Day.

All I have to give is ALL and then I’ll get ALL in return. 

That’s a fair trade for ME.

Some people think they can go to that intersection… WITHOUT putting in the time FIRST, but you CAN’T do that.

You don’t have FREEDOM of choice until you’ve earned it… until you’ve put in that time.

The TIME is required for you to be FREE.

You CANNOT be at the intersection if you DIDN’T do that time.

It is NOT the same.

That is ONLY going to make sense to people who can hear it.

Most of you will be deaf to it and that’s fine.

Some of you WILL hear it.

And those are the only people that NEED to hear it.