Commitment

Reading Derek Sivers' "How to Live".

The chapter on commitment struck a chord. I know there are more chapters to come, and that some contain the opposite advice. Already read a few.

Yet I can't shake this feeling of "yeah, this is it" reading this chapter gave me.

Perhaps it wasn't ground breaking stuff. Or maybe it was. I don't think that I've heard advice to this effect before. Usually it's about how to get from here to there.

Derek is right. I don't need more choice. More choice will only make me less happy. Make me doubt that what I have is what I need.

What I need is more commitment. To eschew choice and say that I have all I need.

I do. I want for nothing in life. Everything a man could ever need to thrive, I have, and more besides. What I must to is to commit. Take full responsibility for all I have. Do them justice by being my best.

And yet. And yet...

There's this thing I can't stop thinking about. It's the first sentence of the first chapter:

All misery comes from dependency.

It speaks to me. A thundering whisper telling me that this is it. Get this one right, and you will have done it.

So close, yet so far.

How to get from here to there?