The Peachy Boulder
Keep rolling the boulder
David Chang’s Eat a Peach teaches us a main lesson: sometimes your lowest points or your depression or mental illness is where you get the most creative inspiration. When you know that you have nothing to lose anymore and so it becomes an existential thing for you to create something inspiring. Knowing how valuable time pushes you to search for existential meaning in your life. The valuable lessons learned are: creativity, existentialism or purpose, life task, mental illness, childhood trauma.
(1) Creativity, being creative can be defined in many ways but most importantly it is about learning about how to connect the ideas around you. Learn from history, steal ideas wisely. Get from the ancients, the philosophers, creative people, successful people who have created their businesses from nothing. Learn and become intuitive of the world around you. Understand how the world functions. Read a lot and fail often. Success takes time is something most people learn the hard way. Fight for what you really want in life.
(2) Existentialism or purpose, you will be foolish to believe that you have a purpose in life, you will get frustrated not knowing everything about God, the world around you, you will realize how meaningless everything is. The search for meaning will get you depressed, lonely, an outlier, appear weak but this will have reaping rewards. People become too late in realizing life is only meaningful only if you make it so and not because it is predetermined or too late in getting their life in order because of partying, drinking, drugs which is okay once in awhile but sometimes too much fun will consume you if you don’t know how to take responsibility for your choices and actions. We become angry and inadequate that it becomes our character but finding a way to overcome that anger more profusely and productively will allow us to grow.
(3) Life task, inside, we all have that urge to do something for ourselves, our families, and it’s our way to make sense of our existential crisis. We try to find meaning in our questions and so we look for ways to make sense of those questions by trying different things. At times, when we search for purpose, we are often left with chaos, anger, ungodliness, and we bargain with God or the universe or what is out there. Some have fallen into deep depression, darkness, that they forget their more stable selves searching for answers. But the lucky ones are those who find meaning in seemingly meaningless things.
(4) Mental Illness, A lot of the greats who have achieved something timeless and valuable in life have suffered from personal setbacks and would ultimately become their own downfall. A lot of them had to deal with mental illness or depression and it ended up taking their life. The lucky ones are able to overcome those questions of inadequacy, loneliness, pain and channel it into bigger things, knowing that they do not have anything to lose anymore.
(5) Childhood Trauma, we all come out of our families, going to university, graduating high school wounded and scarred. No one comes out unhurt from their family’s pain and trauma but it’s learning to move past that anger and learning that your parents probably experienced something worse than you did and they did their very best to raise you.Our parents were once children, they probably had to survive a more traumatic upbringing with the culture of older generations and how lonely and emotionless their parents were. It is your responsibility to make your life better from that pain. Learn from them and grow. Accept your parents and don’t expect much from them if you know how they really are already.
