Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheared podcast. I'm your host, Austin Creed. I want to welcome you to the show. So my friends. When I look at the my own experience in life, when I look at when I see people I love go through. It's kind of hard to not notice certain patterns in life, and this show is built off of exploring the idea of having your own personal philosophy. The show is meant to help you craft a blueprint for your own life of you navigate the intricacies of the. Of your own existence so that you can help yourself achieve whatever it is that you want out of this life. Asking hard questions, coming to uncomfortable realizations. All these things are part and parcel of the human existence, and so. So today I really want to have just a one-on-one conversation, you know, pretend like we're sitting down in the room and we're just having a. Conversation, because that's really what I want to do today. You know, normally we would go through clips and clips and clips and I could pull them up. I found them. You know, before I went live on the show, I said, you know what? I could go clip by, clip by clip and you know what? Maybe I might still do it, but. As social creatures. We undergo trials. And one of those trials is this idea that we have these people, we need everybody around us to be happy. We need to. It is our responsibility to make other people's lives better. It is our responsibility to give and to give and to give. And part of that is true. But there's another part of the coin on the other side of the coin. People just don't want to talk about and it's this reality that you reach. Everybody reaches reality at a certain age. Some reach it very close to the end of their life. Other people realize it very early on and that is this. Most people don't care what you're doing. Most people don't care what you who you are, what you're doing. Why you're doing it? How you did it? Most people don't care about that. Most people are so self absorbed with their own life that what you're doing and must it affects them. They don't care what you're doing, really. But they will make sure to check you when you step out of. Line in their eyes. My friends, when I wrote the book Biblical bachelor, I tried to take out all the ideas of morality. What should do what I shouldn't do, what I ought to do, what what? What other person wants me to do at the end of the day, that's one of the problems that I see in our society. Everybody is so concerned with what you're doing. Why you're doing it. Why? And they care so much about what everybody else is doing. And as human beings or social creatures, right, we have a natural need, both in our platonic and our romantic relationships, to say, hey, you know what I want? I want people to care about me and I want to have a say in the world. I want to have a say in my own life. I want to have a say in how politics are run or how the people in my life treat me all these things, right? But it's interesting to see that most people want to look outwards to find who they are. And maybe this is esoteric. Maybe this is getting a little bit too. Feely, spiritually whatnot and. My friends, if you're saying hey Austin, you know, this is kind of weird. I don't know why you're talking about this. You know what? Maybe maybe you can come back tomorrow. OK, because right now this is this is weighing on my heart today. It really is. And it's interesting to me, the more people I meet. The more I find peoples identities are wrapped up in other people, the value they bring to other people, the value they bring to society, usually in the form of their occupation. People don't like the idea of being uncomfortable and they will go through any means to be comfortable. The freedoms that we enjoy in America. Most people want nothing more than the rigid social orders of society and the freedom to be comfortable. You carve out this little cave of comfort and to just sit there in silence. Or sometimes that silence is quite a bit louder because they can't stand the idea of being alone. The idea of solitude, there's tremendous strength and solitude. Yet for some reason there are so many people in society and on especially on days like this Valentine's Day. It's so weird to me. I go on Twitter. X whatever you want to call it, I don't care. I use it interchangeably. It still doesn't make sense to me why Elon Musk changed the branding of Twitter, but whatever I go on there and I look at all these people are making posts about how ohh I'm, you know, and I get a lot of more joke posts. I get that. But they're the posts of like. I wish I had a girlfriend or I wish I had a boyfriend or OK. Now when I see happy couples or whatever, I don't understand that. Personally, I don't. I'm not trying to front you. I'm not trying to be like, oh, I don't need no woman, but whatever. I'm asking because fundamentally. I don't need to be around people all the time. In fact, I enjoy being alone for the most part. Can I easily call up somebody and hang out with them? Hell yeah, people ask me to hang out all the time. But it's interesting to me that on a day like this Valentine's Day, I noticed that. This especially is a problem. People fall for the marketing campaigns. They fall for the fact that. You people don't want to be alone. Did you being alone terrifies people and businesses are more more than happy to capitalize on and make a. Lot of money. 

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And it's sad. Personally, I think that that's really sad. My friends, what do you think? What do you think about this journey of life that we're all on? Do you know who you are when you look in the mirror? What do you see? You even identify with your name that you've been given, but these are all very interesting ideas, and even in the eyes of the law, I'm not a legal professional. This is not professional legal advice, but in the eyes of the law, from what I have seen. You are a number. OK. When you go to court? You your name like whatever your first name and last name is. Is the. Representation of your Social Security number. OK. And but people they kind of put themselves in a box. They put themselves as an I am this. They don't explore, they don't go out there and try something new. They don't want to take a journey to identify who they are, who they is. They want to become. Most people don't even know who they are, and then they don't know why they can't seem to get what they want. You. Too many people suffer from. And I I I'm sorry. I have to say this, but too many people suffer from. Not knowing what they want, but they sure as hell know what they don't. Women especially suffer from this. Men I've been noticing in larger numbers also have a failure to launch syndrome where. They don't know what they want to do, so they just do nothing or they wait for some opportunity to just fall in their lap and they're like, oh, thank God. But that doesn't happen. A lot of women, especially, they know what they don't want, but they can't seem to figure out what it is they want, whether it's from a man, whether it's from their friends, whether it's from life, whether it's from the government, the corporations, whoever most people suffer from this, and unfortunately, too often than not, women fall in that category. My friends, life is a journey. Life is not meant to be easy, and if you are comfortable right now, you're doing something wrong. Because you don't grow in comfort. You know my sister recently she broke up with her boyfriend and they've been together for like, couple years. And it was interesting to kind of see. How loss affects people, even though it's not a huge loss and I've seen people, both others and myself, go through tremendous loss, but it makes you realize that when there's discomfort, when there's pain, that is when you grow as. An individual that is when you grow as a person, how many times in your life when you just sat back and life was good? What have. You learned something. Usually that leads to boredom, and when you're bored is when you make a mistake and then when you make a mistake, you learn something from it hopefully, or you repeat it. And then you kind of try to become comfortable again. It goes through this whole cycle. And my friends, I want to ask you a really serious question. How well do you know yourself? How well do you know the environment that you're in that has shaped who you've become? Because. A lot of this show that and I care about relationships a lot. That's why I talk about it all the time on this show. Why do I think relationships are so? Important well relationships are important because with they're the biggest decision you'll ever make in your life. Male, female. If you don't identify as either whatever it is you want. To identify as or whatever relationships are the most important choice you will ever make in your life, especially if you end up having offspring with that person. Relationships are something that will change your life because. You will become what you think about you will become who you are, influenced by what you are around, what you interact with. This is unavoidable. But yet too many people are surrounded by losers. They're surrounded by people who aren't benefiting them. They're surrounded by people who aren't pushing them, who aren't having them question who they are, why they're doing what they're doing. And then they wonder why their lives are mediocre, why they're not getting ahead. And then the first instinct is to play a victim. And not ask yourself how you can achieve victory. You ever wonder why so many people we see in social media, so many people we see on a daily basis? They want to be the victim like a victim Olympics. If you're the most oppressed person, you win in today's society. You ever wonder why? That is answer because people don't know who they are, but what they do know is they want the validation of other people. So the only way to do that in their minds is to appeal to the path. Those be pathetic. Paint those as lot is Greek for pathetic. We know it as the emotional appeal. And so when people come to me with these emotional arguments, my usual response is something akin to. 

Are you talking to me? 

Not because I hate them or because I'm unhappy. It's because people don't want solutions to their problems. They just want to vent about it, which is a waste of time. And it doesn't show emotional intelligence. But it all goes back to this journey that we're that we're on as human beings and. You know, I gotta, I gotta ask you something. We as humans, we thrive on this. The the relationships around us. Romantic, platonic, whatever. Let me ask you, how much is a relationship in your past, whether it be a a friend, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife, whatever. How has that shaped you as a person? How has that made you stronger? How's made you weaker? How is it? Shaped you into the person you are right now. Do you know where you're going in life? Has that person hated or hindered it? Have you allowed that to happen? You allow people into your life? My friends, I understand that life is tough. If your life is easier, probably doing something wrong. Ohh, you're just really fortunate. But it is only through pain that we forge our own futures, and I really hope that you use the pain in your life. To make yourself stronger and better. Because the relationships. And people who you are. Around if you want to be someone of higher quality then you need to be surrounding yourself with people like that, and if you don't know anyone like that, that means you aren't that person. Means you don't have anything. You're bringing a benefit to the table. And that's where you got to start, because you even started there, we're in trouble. I'm not trying to make you feel bad when I talk this show I'm not is not meant to make you feel bad. It's meant to highlight uncomfortable reality. That's what we do on the show. I want you to understand that your personal philosophy has been both crafted by you and influenced by outside sources that you have allowed to influence you. And then once you realize that. Sorry, my neck's getting a little stiff. The more you realize that, the more likely you are to question, wait, why do I believe? This do I want to believe this is this even right? Let me. What the hell are we talking about? Those are the questions I want you to be asking yourself cause then. You can burn away the chaff, burn away the waste and you can build a foundation upon which the rest of your life can be based if you want. But it takes time. Extrication and it takes discipline to do something like that. I can't do it for you. I wish I could trust me. I wish I could. But I can't. Even if I tried to, you probably Buck probably wouldn't like it, and it probably wouldn't be a proper prescription of which to cure what ails you. That is why. I want you to be able to do that for yourself, but it takes the first step. By you to go on this journey of 1000 miles, 10,000 miles, the rest of your life. Maybe you're unhappy. Maybe you're depressed. I've been in that place before. I was really depressed once when I was in the military, I was in a mental hospital. How did I go from being in a mental hospital to where I am now? Because I decided that I would never. Find myself there again. Never, never in a million years, but I ever find myself there again. I owned what I had done. I owned how I had contributed to where I was and I decided that I was going to move on and do better. Period. And if you're still blaming other people, if you're still unable to take even 1% of the blame for what has happened to you in your life. And that explains why you are where you're at. And I understand when I say this, people are unhappy. They want to be told that they're a victim. They should. That I should feel sorry for them, but. No, you end up just sounding like. 

This is the worst kind of discrimination. The kind against me. 

And unfortunately, ultimately people are more than happy to take that role. My friends. It is my desire for every person who listens to this show live the life of their dreams. That is my goal. My goal is to help you ask the right questions so you can lead to a better life. That is what I hope I do for you. I save one person who listens to the show. Then I will have done my job. Because I've been in those, I've seen those dark places I've stared into the dark void and the void is also stared into me. I'm not trying to get dark and brooding, you know bad Manny. I really want you to understand where I'm coming from here. I'm not holier than you. Not better than you. The only difference is action. Because anybody can. Talk that talk, but it's all about whether you can walk that walk. And only you can decide to do that. My friends, this journey of life we're on this identifying of who you are. This this. This echo you might hear as you're trying to belong in the society. You don't have to do that. You don't have to conform conformity, in my opinion, is the worst thing you can do. Because you are forsaking yourself for the sake of people who don't care about. Thank you. For the sake or forsaking for the sake of people who don't care about you. For people who will drop you with the first convenience. The question is, is that the life you want for yourself? Is that the better existence, or is developing a personal philosophy that works for you a better option? That's only a choice you can make. And as your life changes, you might go in different directions. That's how life works. My friends. This journey is long for most people. But please have a long term focus on a fulfillment, not excitement. Excitement is fleeting, like a drug, fulfillment is satisfaction and that you have sacrificed sufficiently and accurately and that your investments in your own life have paid off. My friends. I really hope that. I I didn't just get on here today and and nobody heard me. I really hope you heard what I'm trying to get out today. My friends. Please stay vigilant and informed in this world because at the end of the day. With all the marketing campaigns, all of the people trying to make a dollar off of you, all of the goofiness in the world, it's easy to get distracted. Please for this for your own sake. Question everything you hear, you see, you read whatever. It's important that you think for yourself. I want anybody else ever think for you. God bless you. I'm out of here. Have a great day. Peace.