If you don’t have it, then discipline is everything. Without discipline, you can’t trust yourself to enjoy things/activities, because they might become cravings.
But WITH discipline…you’re free to enjoy all of life without fear, with absolute trust.
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha
Musings and books from a grunty overthinker
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha 
Until, of course, something totally unique you didn’t see coming bites you on the ass and says “Howdy. You were being so vigilant and disciplined I thought I’d drop in and disrupt your equational universe with the real one.”
That’s why God invented jumper cables. And ambulances.
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Yep. Discipline is a tool which we use to enhance and fulfill our experience of life—not so we can engage in some falsely noble masochism.
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What is “it?” Is this one of those things where if you don’t know what it is, you don’t have it? (Like the movie Semi-Tough?)
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Sorry, I should’ve been a bit clearer on the pronouns, lol. “It” refers to the subject immediately following, in this case discipline.
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Boundaries are important. But, you don’t always need to color inside the lines.
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Indeed. If discipline becomes a shackle, then it’s just another stupid expression of masochism. Discipline imho should be used to propagate fulfillment and a richer experience of life.
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Love this one.
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Thanks! 🙂
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My lack of discipline cause HIM great sufferings. Me? I have always been this way…ALWAYS!!!!! There is no greater adventure than the one to be experienced by shoe lace funding, spur of the moment, and by the belt loops…
YeeeeeHAAWWWW!
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I like to use discipline to keep the low-level stuff straight, so that when a cool opportunity comes along, I’m poised to leap, just like you described! 🙂
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I don’t know if you knew this, but this is wonderfully Catholic. Discipline should always be a part of life, but life isn’t merely at time of constant disciplining. Discipline is preparation for the nitty-gritty of life that will doubtless slam everyone over the head at some point. Without the prior exercise of discipline, when that does happen, what could anyone do but crumple under the blow?
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Right! I like to see discipline as something that allows me to capitalize on opportunity—not an end in and of itself.
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