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yup. we have to work. as a collective though we have allowed ourselves to become consumers and not the free agents of thought we long to be. let's all stop consuming goods and start consuming time with our loved ones instead. i hate the fact i have to go to work this morning. i woke up next to my beautiful April and Xavier and i couldnt have been happier. it's my family. it's my centre. it's my love.
this is something i think rings true in everyone when they have enough time to stop and really think about it. this self perpetuated need to consume whatever it is we think we need in order to maintain order. jobs and promotions. university. buying cars and having the very best you can "afford" in everything else. imagine if wealth was measured in how you treated your family. how much you loved. how much you cared about nature or the world. how much you were prepared to listen to critique and adapt and change yourself because YOU thought it was best for you. we all possess this yet we dont want to maintain it or harvest it because we are too busy trying to impress everyone else by presenting them with shiny things and machines that go bing! for some reason this became the way our culture has "moved on" and it's way to impress and measure achievment and success. bah! whatever.
the argument goes that "we deserve to give ourselves the simple pleasures. if i want to work hard and get a new TV then why the fuck cant i?". you can. didn't say you couldnt. just saying that once that TV goes in you have to choose wether or not you are going to watch it all day and night or are you going to turn it off every once in a while and listen to music and look each other in the eye and tell the person you love that you cant be without them and everything is so much better when they are around. at what point was it cool to do all these other things and put the careful moulding of our spirituality and cultivation of ourselves and our relationships on hold until the "later years" when we are told we'll have time. this is the way to reward the soul body and mind for waiting for you to compete in the worlds biggest pissing competition? what a joke.
quite a few people around me are doing some amazing things and this is what has prompted me to take a good long hard look at my life and question just how long i have been asleep for.
i would like to see everyone give up something they know is time consuming and wasteful and try really hard to replace it with something that is, quite frankly, going to be hard at 1st but with practice and persistence will become something they can treasue the rest of their lives. spirituality, music, art, language, reading, creating, loving, meditation, exercise or a new skill that has been longing to jump out of your soul and present itself. wake yourself up with something rewarding. we deserve it.
i think if we stop worrying about the things that dont matter we'll have a mountain of time for the things that do.
this is something i think rings true in everyone when they have enough time to stop and really think about it. this self perpetuated need to consume whatever it is we think we need in order to maintain order. jobs and promotions. university. buying cars and having the very best you can "afford" in everything else. imagine if wealth was measured in how you treated your family. how much you loved. how much you cared about nature or the world. how much you were prepared to listen to critique and adapt and change yourself because YOU thought it was best for you. we all possess this yet we dont want to maintain it or harvest it because we are too busy trying to impress everyone else by presenting them with shiny things and machines that go bing! for some reason this became the way our culture has "moved on" and it's way to impress and measure achievment and success. bah! whatever.
the argument goes that "we deserve to give ourselves the simple pleasures. if i want to work hard and get a new TV then why the fuck cant i?". you can. didn't say you couldnt. just saying that once that TV goes in you have to choose wether or not you are going to watch it all day and night or are you going to turn it off every once in a while and listen to music and look each other in the eye and tell the person you love that you cant be without them and everything is so much better when they are around. at what point was it cool to do all these other things and put the careful moulding of our spirituality and cultivation of ourselves and our relationships on hold until the "later years" when we are told we'll have time. this is the way to reward the soul body and mind for waiting for you to compete in the worlds biggest pissing competition? what a joke.
quite a few people around me are doing some amazing things and this is what has prompted me to take a good long hard look at my life and question just how long i have been asleep for.
i would like to see everyone give up something they know is time consuming and wasteful and try really hard to replace it with something that is, quite frankly, going to be hard at 1st but with practice and persistence will become something they can treasue the rest of their lives. spirituality, music, art, language, reading, creating, loving, meditation, exercise or a new skill that has been longing to jump out of your soul and present itself. wake yourself up with something rewarding. we deserve it.
i think if we stop worrying about the things that dont matter we'll have a mountain of time for the things that do.