Monday, July 31, 2017

Another short one

I just want to get something out before it's Tuesday. Packing and moving all day. Tomorrow I'll Be all out. The place I'm moving into is still fairly dirty so it won't feel like home until it's gotten some serious love, and cleaning will be a little more time consuming since I'll already have my stuff there. I'll have to clean a section, move my stuff there, and then clean the section where my stuff was. Enjoying a book on tape on my way to and fro.

What is wealth? I sat by a stream in the pine barrens this last week and what I experienced there was more beautiful than any piece of artwork ever made. People pay millions of dollars for paintings by great masters, when far greater works of beauty can be found for free. Though we are destroying them, with our factories and shopping centers and housing developments.

What makes someone rich? I just read that according to some psychology research on happiness, being time rich is far more beneficial to happiness than being money rich. Meeting basic needs and such makes a big difference, but after that, you will be more wealthy exchanging extra money for extra time. I haven't looked in depth at that, but I assume you need to have something worthwhile you'll be spending the time on. Loved ones, being of service, creating and enjoying beauty.

More and more psychology is exonerating my viewpoint that the modern world is totally insane, and most people are chasing dreams they've been sold on TV that won't even make them happy, or will provide only the briefest of highs, before returning them to the dull hell they have created for themselves that they are constantly trying to ignore via our ubiquitous glowing little screens.

The bad news is that many people are going to die, cursing how much of their life they wasted. The good news is, it's possible to live a different way. There truly is deep beauty and joy and meaning to be found and had in life. It's not an impossible dream. But it is a challenging one.

Well, our stories of heroic quests wouldn't be very interesting if it was all super easy.

'night :-)

-Isaac

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