13:13, when the universe says go. This is quite a broad concept. I never thought I would write about it. But here I am, trying to define it. Does the universe say, go do this? Or is it you, trying to attain something, and imagining—by believing this—that if you do the certain steps which you are about to take, you would get a result, and it would always be favorable to you? Favorable things are a matter of perspective, while malefic things simply are.
They are there to hold you back, to make you feel like you can't, you will never….. yes, you. But take a deep breath. Just think. The meaning of 1313 is to go. That is what you think. That is what I think. But it is not go, but do. Do it. If you are thinking of walking to lose weight, then just start walking. There is also no word like start. Just walk. Again, again, and again. I felt passionately that maybe for some time if I just exercised, then all my health problems would be gone. I tried it, but my health problems only reduced; they were not solved. To solve them, I realized that it is not go, but do.
The direction where I wish to take this is Ambition, Purpose, and Perseverance. To combine it, I would call it an app. So, understanding this with a perspective is Ambition, Purpose, and Perseverance. Whenever someone says to someone else to just go and do a thing, these are the three things they do not think about: Ambition, Purpose, and Perseverance. Why does someone want to do that thing? What does someone wish to gain from that thing? And why does someone keep doing it again and again? The most simple and repetitive task, I would say, is to wake up and then sleep again. Why would you do it? Why again and again? For most people, say, one-third of your life, you sleep away. So is it worth it, or is it not? It goes beyond the matrix of value. It is just not worth it or is not worth it. It is sleep; it is peace.
For some of you who may have heard the story of the big billion-dollar startups—sorry, trillion-dollar startups—all may be started with just one thing: the ambition to become big. Then what drove them was the purpose of the job they did. If it was to make your commute easy, it was the vehicles, especially my favorite, BMW. It’s the BMW engineering work, or our favorite sports car, German-built. It has some aesthetics to it, and its sporty side is just wonderful, beyond expressive remarks. Whenever I see that BMW car, only one thing drives me: aggressiveness. That is the first thing I feel, the first emotion: aggressiveness.
Now for the other half. Most of us want to live a common life. I too wish to live a common life. I wish to just wake up every day, have a hearty breakfast, go and do some job that would pay me enough for my daily life, have a beautiful family, a wife who trusts me, and some beautiful children, while taking care of the family and having a fun time with friends. That is really what I wish for. But then again, what comes between my dream and me is the A.P.P. I abbreviate it for my dream: Ambition, Purpose, Perseverance.
Now, the dream. I have figured it out. Yes, I have. For the first part of my life, I’ll ignore the first twenty years, as those are what I have lived for the purpose and sake of understanding the social norms, societal traditions, and the barriers of community. And now, as a full-fledged, understanding, twenty-one-year-old person, the universe calls me, it tells me, the time has come. Just go. It's not to think, not to act, but to do. To think and to act, there are causes behind it. But to do, at first, it seems like breathing—no purpose attached, but perseverance involved unknowingly. The second time, a purpose gets attached. When the purpose and perseverance find their harmony, the ambition emerges. First, it appears in the eyes, then in the mind, and finally grows in the body. It drives your soul to work, to work, and to work.
First, happiness comes when I want to do something without someone telling me, “Oh, you need to do it.”
Second, you have to grow it big enough, big, big, so big that the world acknowledges you for it.
The concept of the world and acknowledgment is tricky, yes, it is. But as I say, and as my mentor says, don’t become a philosopher before you become rich. Shakespeare was not famous before his death but after. Nikola Tesla was supported and recognized after his death, not before. The fight for independence arrived after colonial loot, colonial deprivations, and colonial tragedies. Someone’s powerful hunger deprives others of happiness and their future. At the same time, it fulfilled someone else’s unfulfilled hunger.
So, in this regard, what it means is to understand limitations. One way: grasping the meaning of life, and understanding its essence through gradual progression. There is never a day to fully experience a season, but there is an entire season to experience a day. Graduality and focus will surely lead you there, to the destination you are dreaming of.
Don’t stop dreaming, because the day you stop, you stop Breathing.