2. Harajuku moment
Each person lives in his lot.
Where every day feels the same.
Then a beautiful and painful reckoning.
Our life is redefined by, this Harajuku moment.
Note: This piece of writing stems from Tim Ferriss’ idea (latest mentioned here). If you think that Chad or Tim said enough about the topic, you are free to stop reading this now. If you keep reading because you love what I write, I love you too.
The Harajuku moment, personal experience of Chad Fowler and popularized by Tim Ferriss. It means “A beautiful and painful reckoning.”
More simply, it is when you are finally conscious of a thought pattern that is harmful for you and have no choice but to change it.
I have mixed feelings about it. Like soldier. In a perfect world, there is no war, so soldier does not exist. So in a perfect life, all of your beliefs are useful, so you never find you disgusted at yourself for thinking that you have no control over you health and fitness, for example. Alas, we live in a world far from perfect. War is raging on in March 2024, and people hold mistaken beliefs that don’t serve them, even unconscious of them.
But we are in luck. Our mind is malleable. With some presence of mind, innate or practiced, one can catch these Harajuku moments. And then nothing is the same. You must do something else. You could fail, of course, like with any new year resolution. But you will never be able to go back to your life the way before. The reckoning will be there, gnawing away at your heart, when you try to make the old un-serving choices.
These moments are invaluable. Use correctly, and it changes your life. For ever, with the right practice.
(But what is the right practice?)
