10 things I've learned in 5 decades +9
#31) If you are telling someone a problem you are having and that person interrupts the story in the middle and tells you something along the lines of what the simple solution to your problem might be. That person is very clearly telling you that they don't care about what you are saying. That it is trivial or unimportant to them. Don’t share your problems with that person any more. They don’t care.
#32) There have been times in my life when I’ve lived in a state of zen like contentment and fulfillment. Where I had a job and a place to live, exciting things to do and interesting friends to do them with and could readily handle the challenges of everyday life. It is quite a satisfying way to be.
The problem with zen is that it lacks ambition beyond itself. The knowledge that things will come to you, that things will happen, when and where they should is anathema to radical change. The belief that ambition or desire are incompatible with self-actualization puts one in a state of stasis. Sometimes one needs to set aside this quest for simplification and feelings of content to achieve something big. Something new.
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