the bare essentials
Living the modern urban and cosmopolitan lifestyle which today is no longer any different from the legendary fast-paced, breakneck speed, cutthroat New Yorker lifestyle has slowly made me into a person who has less and less patience with the non-essentials, the mundane and the superficial.
Nowadays I seem to have less tolerance for idle chitchat and gossip. Moreso when I become the subject and topic of gossip and chitchat... I've developed a massive distaste for it, especially when unbidden thoughts enter my mind that as it is, sleeping the full 6-8 hours a night nowadays has been upgraded to a luxury reserved for approximately only half the week... whereas it seems that others seem to have so much of spare time to indulge in... well, yeah. Gossip. Chitchat.
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A few days ago, I told a friend -- "I wish things were simpler."
Life's complicated enough as it is... when people ask me for my wish in 2009, I could just easily say -- I just want to simplify my life. Spend time and energy, exhaust attention for only the things that really matter. Strip it down to nothing but the real bare essentials.
But then, simplifying is only easy when you have control over everything in life that affects you... which basically redounds to... I guess I should just accept that life won't be as simple as I want it to be. Especially not when on a daily basis, you work with, live with, function with and survive with human beings... who were never created to be simple in the first place.
Me... I just want to earn my bi-monthly paycheck while having reasonable work hours; set enough money aside for savings; spend peaceful evenings and nights with Jude; have enough time left to see my family and friends on a regular basis; and have just enough leisure time to read, watch my DVDs, play my video games and basically sit back and relax.
And I just long for the day when taking a bath, brushing my teeth, and all those daily things we do for basic hygiene.... don't feel like stupid chores that eats away whatever little time I have left to rest, relax or sleep.
Sounds so simple and basic... but why does it still feel so elusive?
(and no, I wouldn't even blame just work anymore)
Nowadays I seem to have less tolerance for idle chitchat and gossip. Moreso when I become the subject and topic of gossip and chitchat... I've developed a massive distaste for it, especially when unbidden thoughts enter my mind that as it is, sleeping the full 6-8 hours a night nowadays has been upgraded to a luxury reserved for approximately only half the week... whereas it seems that others seem to have so much of spare time to indulge in... well, yeah. Gossip. Chitchat.
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A few days ago, I told a friend -- "I wish things were simpler."
Life's complicated enough as it is... when people ask me for my wish in 2009, I could just easily say -- I just want to simplify my life. Spend time and energy, exhaust attention for only the things that really matter. Strip it down to nothing but the real bare essentials.
But then, simplifying is only easy when you have control over everything in life that affects you... which basically redounds to... I guess I should just accept that life won't be as simple as I want it to be. Especially not when on a daily basis, you work with, live with, function with and survive with human beings... who were never created to be simple in the first place.
Me... I just want to earn my bi-monthly paycheck while having reasonable work hours; set enough money aside for savings; spend peaceful evenings and nights with Jude; have enough time left to see my family and friends on a regular basis; and have just enough leisure time to read, watch my DVDs, play my video games and basically sit back and relax.
And I just long for the day when taking a bath, brushing my teeth, and all those daily things we do for basic hygiene.... don't feel like stupid chores that eats away whatever little time I have left to rest, relax or sleep.
Sounds so simple and basic... but why does it still feel so elusive?
(and no, I wouldn't even blame just work anymore)