Despite having the first and one the most important astronomers in history, the Greeks didn't celebrate the return of the earth to the sun on a day as arbitrary as, for example, December 31. Nor did they have Decembers or Januarys or Aprils, because a boy named Jesus, who would revolutionize, among many other things, the measurement of time, hadn't been born yet.
Surely their goals were set based on the seasons, the moons, the crops, the tides. But I doubt they had set out, on any given day of the year, that in the next 365 days they would lose weight (and fail within the first 30 days), or travel the world (which, by the way, was pretty circumscribed at the time).
However, they were beyond doubt masters when it came to "(story)telling." The guys learned to go viral without having social media or web pages, and even though most of them were illiterate. Yet, they were able to send us the most incredible and eternal stories, those that don't disappear after 24 hours and run through our veins and in whatever language you speak (unless you were born somewhere in or around China, but we'll talk about that another time).
Their social networks were the bonds with their family and community, much stronger than Instagram and its blessed algorithm. And their message went beyond the barriers of time and language because they had SOMETHING TO SAY, and they had THE URGENCY to say it at that moment and not another.
We all have a message to communicate, and sometimes that message needs to be said at a specific moment and no other (if your birthday is in September, wouldn't it sound strange if someone greeted you four months before?).
So my questions for you are:
What do you have to say? Why now? And to who?
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