When my first reaction to a post is an indignant "that's not true!" I know the pointing finger has touched a sore spot that is worth examining further.
- I've always preferred to be outdoors, or indoors (sheltered safely) with windows and doors wide open. Towards the end of highschool, I said to to the career counselor, "I don't want to work in an office.". - It turned out, though, that what I love to do most does traditionally take place in offices. I've always wondered, why our classrooms and offices end up recycled-air-stuffed-boxes, even when the wather is nice and the sun is warm. I magine an "office park" that's actually a park! with a greenhouse for cold and rainy days, tall sunflowers and lemon shrubberies for dividers, tree canopies to cool the air.
- I have enough money to pay my bills, so it's easy to step back and recognize that the money game is just that, and not take it so seriously, at least on Saturday mornings. And the woman on the bench downtown, in her dirty wintercoat even when it's over a hundred, she's not even in the game, refuses getting touched by it. - For most, even leaving the game costs money!
- Maybe the problem isn't the money, or that things aren't free, or that some have more than others. We are not all the same, and our life paths have many directions. Maybe it's possible that we need to leave behind the belief that only the fittest are worthy of survival, and that we must outcompete others to prove our worthiness. Because even with 8 billion people on this planet, there is actually enough for all of us!
Well said Aleks, well said: "Maybe it's possible that we need to leave behind the belief that only the fittest are worthy of survival, and that we must outcompete others to prove our worthiness. Because even with 8 billion people on this planet, there is actually enough for all of us!"
When my first reaction to a post is an indignant "that's not true!" I know the pointing finger has touched a sore spot that is worth examining further.
- I've always preferred to be outdoors, or indoors (sheltered safely) with windows and doors wide open. Towards the end of highschool, I said to to the career counselor, "I don't want to work in an office.". - It turned out, though, that what I love to do most does traditionally take place in offices. I've always wondered, why our classrooms and offices end up recycled-air-stuffed-boxes, even when the wather is nice and the sun is warm. I magine an "office park" that's actually a park! with a greenhouse for cold and rainy days, tall sunflowers and lemon shrubberies for dividers, tree canopies to cool the air.
- I have enough money to pay my bills, so it's easy to step back and recognize that the money game is just that, and not take it so seriously, at least on Saturday mornings. And the woman on the bench downtown, in her dirty wintercoat even when it's over a hundred, she's not even in the game, refuses getting touched by it. - For most, even leaving the game costs money!
- Maybe the problem isn't the money, or that things aren't free, or that some have more than others. We are not all the same, and our life paths have many directions. Maybe it's possible that we need to leave behind the belief that only the fittest are worthy of survival, and that we must outcompete others to prove our worthiness. Because even with 8 billion people on this planet, there is actually enough for all of us!
Well said Aleks, well said: "Maybe it's possible that we need to leave behind the belief that only the fittest are worthy of survival, and that we must outcompete others to prove our worthiness. Because even with 8 billion people on this planet, there is actually enough for all of us!"
Love the line: "I'm not a fan of adulthood," Jena!
Grins! Thanks Auntie E. You know it's true :-)
Thank you for this much needed wholesome and uplifting message of getting back to the real meaning of life.
Thank YOU, Lorraine. I was sort of dreading messages that said I should "get real" and stop whining - lol.
It's definitely scary to post our perspective. Yours is wonderful. Thanks Jena!
Thank you, Lorraine.