So you have been a monk for nearly 20 years, and I feel like the question I always want to ask monks.

Well, there's normally like 100 of them, but what was the moment that you realized external achievement would never be enough?

Great question. It was, I think, a moment when I, in my already, transitioning from teenage years into my adult life,

I was watching the people around me.

And I think what I started to notice was one trend, which was that a lot of the people that were older in my life,

they would reminisce about the younger years of their life as if that was the peak of their life.

And that from then on, it kind of was like, okay, I mean, we still have some degree of

fun in our life, but it wasn't like it used to be. And I had the privilege of having had the

contact of some spiritual people, monks even, and I had talked to them, and I was seeming to get

the opposite answer, where they would say that my life's peaking, sort of the more I live, the more I grow, the more I evolve. I mean, I wouldn't, I wouldn't

say that it was just that but it played a huge role in my mind because it really made me realize

that I didn't want to to face a life where it had already peaked then in my early 20s,

and from then on it would just be a sort of coping.

And I'm not saying that of course everybody is like that,

but it was an interesting observation

and it really made me reconsider what I wanted to do with my life

and what I wanted to dedicate my life to.

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