{"id":3396,"date":"2011-01-24T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2011-01-24T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:40:09","slug":"the-short-and-sweet-guide-to-being-fucking-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/24\/the-short-and-sweet-guide-to-being-fucking-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"The Short and Sweet Guide to Being Fucking Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by inoveryourhead<\/a><\/p>\n

\"uJKji.jpg\"People will tell you that there are all kinds of yardsticks to measure progress.<\/p>\n

What they don\u2019t say is that most of them are worthless<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Money, career, fame\u2026whatever<\/strong>. That\u2019s all fine and good, but the bottom line is that there is one thing\u2013 just one\u2013 that really matters.<\/p>\n

Being fucking awesome.<\/h4>\n

You can be broke and be awesome. You can be in a wheelchair and be awesome. You can be homeless and be awesome. You can even be dead and be awesome.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You want a purpose to your life? I got one for ya.<\/p>\n

From this day forth, your purpose is to be the most fucking awesome person you can imagine being.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quick story:<\/strong> in my early 20s I used to hang out with piercers and tattoo artists a lot. It was the 90s, and a bunch of us were getting crazy parts of their bodies pierced.<\/p>\n

One day I walked up to my piercer friend, Azl, who was pretty much covered with tattoos. Incidentally, he\u2019s now an amazing poker player with a huge backpiece of a king of diamonds (with an axe in his head). Epic.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I walk up to him one day in the studio and I ask: \u201cWhat is it like to look down at your arms and know that all these tattoos are yours\u2013 that this is what your arms look like?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Pausing for a moment for dramatic effect, he answered: \u201cJulien, It is fucking awesome,\u201d<\/em> and smiled widely.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s pretty much it right there.<\/p>\n

What kind of friends do you want to have?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What kind of job do you want?<\/p>\n

What kind of life do you want to have?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The answer to all of these is simple: you want friends, work, and everything else to be awesome<\/em>. The more your life is awesome, the better everything is, and the happier you are, whoo!<\/p>\n

Seriously, being awesome should be a fucking religion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are three\u2013 count \u2018em, three\u2013 standards for awesome. Here they are, in no particular order of bigness.<\/p>\n

1. Yourself<\/h5>\n

I was thinking about this yesterday while I was taking a break from exploringthis town in Malaysia<\/a> where I am right now. I sat down and \u201ccounted my blessings\u201d or whatever. Here\u2019s some of what I came up with.<\/p>\n