Dalai Lama: Coolest Guy I Wish I Knew

My other half/ roommate/ climbing partner/ ASB co-leader/ co-nature enthusiast/coolest girl that I do actually know sent me an article from elephantjournal.com (GREATEST ARTICLE IN THIS GALAXY <--This is the article if you would like to read it. Basically the greatest article you might ever read) about what the 14th Dalai Lama had answered to an interviewer when asked what the first thing that he thinks of when he wakes up in the morning. His response: Shaping motivation. Also an amateur comedian, the Dalai Lama said that shaping his motivation on a daily basis allows him to extend love to everyone, even the Chinese. He has also been cited on a separate occasion saying that having more Monks is the solution to the world's overpopulation. The previous sentences are what makes the Dalai Lama the coolest person that I wish I knew. Motivation underlies every action in our lives. It is like the wind: you cannot see it but it is evident in the sails of a ship or the leaves in a tree. For the goals I want to achieve, for the people I strive to help, I will never maintain the work ethic and passion I need in order to make it to the places I want go. We have to remind ourselves on a daily basis what keeps pushing us through the crap and chaos we see everyday.
Look at this man, how can you not love him? He represents a country that he cannot even live in but he pretty much just said, "F you, Tibet" and continued to inspire the world. By the way, he really would not say "F U" because he is a holy man but for dramatization's sake imagine him flipping off Tibet or something while giving the most innocent and genuine smile you have ever seen. When the first Dalai Lama was exiled in 1959 he continued running the country because people freaking love him and know that this is the wisest lineage of leaders in history.

I have got a lot of getting in shape to do in order to get halfway of what he has figured out. Let's put it this way: He is the Michael Phelps of swimming and I am still 4 years old, standing on the diving board afraid to jump off on my last day of swim lessons because I do not want to drown (true story).

Time to jump in.