The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You

14 The universe is too busy to care. It has worlds to create and galaxies to destroy. If you're worried about death and about your own end, don't. It's coming whether you like it or not. You will either arrive at the end of your life in style or you will arrive broken and beaten, but whichever way you choose, have no doubt that you will arrive.

14 You are that beetle on the streets of New York. The universe doesn't hate you, but it doesn't love you, either. You're just an atom in its infinite workings. The universe doesn't care if you live, die, suffer, or thrive. Only you care.

13 You are very small. We are all staring down the barrel of a gun, and we last only for the tiniest, tiniest moment in time. Your life is a one-way train, and any second you waste is a second lost forever.

12 How to level up Just do it. Claim it. Stop waiting for permission to be epic.

11 even though the universe doesn't care enough to give you what you want, it doesn't care enough to stop you from having it, either. So embrace that anarchy, and take those things for yourself.

11 doesn't matter what you've done. What matters is what you do.

11 Noble people do noble things.

10 Do yourself a favor, right now, and realize two things: 1. You will keep getting older, and then you will die. 2. Everything that's ever entered your experience has lasted and will continue to last for only a brief moment in the life of the universe.

9 If there was this great thing even just two miles back that you decided not to do, you can't change your mind and go do it. That place is gone forever.

9 It's ridiculous. I live in a house that I own. I pay bills. It's crazy.

9 Think back five years in time. Remember what you were like. Realize how fast five years can go. Think about who you are today, the place you're in and the age you are. Then step back into the shoes of your five-years-ago self and look at yourself as you are today.

7 In fact, it should matter to you more than it currently does. If you knew how small you are and how short a time you have to do what you can, you wouldn't waste time watching five fucking hours of TV a day. You wouldn't waste time doing a job you hate. You wouldn't waste the little time you have dealing with assholes, feeling sorry for yourself, or being timid about the things you'd really like to do.

7 You are here now. Eventually, you will be gone. You have but a nanosecond on the universal clock to do whatever it is you're going to do. When that time is gone, it's gone. Forever. That means that although what you do doesn't matter to the universe, it should matter one hell of a lot to you.

7 Think a scar (or a tattoo, for that matter) is permanent? It's not. Your body was literally formed from stardust and will eventually return there.

6 Everything dies.