I’ve often been bored by things that are supposed to be fun, like parties, like casual get-togethers.
I’ve also loved being with some people - so comfortable, so easy.
I love thinkers who add to my understanding. I’ve come across the writings and videos of so many of these people over the last couple of years. Catherine Austin Fitts and David Martin come to mind just now.
But what life is right for me?
And of course, what life is right for you?
My experience: it’s often not easy finding that, living that.
It definitely hasn’t been for me. Many times of satisfaction - especially when caught in creative projects and in idea projects. But also often - very often - the sense, the awareness, the deep knowing, that something is missing - both in everyday life and sometimes even more, in reaching people.
There’s ever so much I’m grateful for, thankful for.
I’m seeing, in my mind’s eye, Copenhagen in the early morning light - 5 am - the streets totally empty. Paris - walking under the Eiffel Tower, walking along the streets near it. London - so many memories of London from so many years ago.
I was a flight attendant in those days, while getting my degrees.
I loved the theatre and art galleries.
But what about my contributions to those worlds?
Around me, many of the other flight attendants complained. Not enough pay. Too many consecutive working hours. Though the airline - from my research - had the best working conditions of any airline worldwide. My sense: something else was wrong. Many of us knew something was missing, for the word to be right for us.
In my case, I was working for a way toward a life that suited me better - university and college teaching.
Later, other things happened, so that no longer satisfied.
And it never satisfied all of me.
Plus, how to have personal relationships that felt right. A long journey, for me.
It’s a lifelong quest, for me anyway, living a life that feels right to me.
I’ve heard often that “happiness is an inside job.” I would say, partly it is.
On the other hand, I’m remembering 3 fabulous summers, each different, each with so much happiness. The summer my mother, sister and I spent with family friends with 3 children almost the same age as my sister and myself - every day driving to a nearby lake, swimming, playing, joy. The summer my sister and I spent at a place for families (our parents joined us for the weekends) - a small natural swimming hole - a large barn filling up with hay - so much running, swimming, playing.The summer a pool opened a short bus ride from where we lived - every day taking the bus with my sister and a friend, learning to swim by jumping off the diving board, splashing hard to make it to the side of the pool, running to get back into line to jump into the pool again and again.
Okay, sure, happiness is an inside job. It’s also “an outside job.”
My sense is that, in my case, most often stuff has been hard to find in the world outside me.
Again, quite a journey. Ongoing.
Posted Nov 28, 2022
There is a way to tap our ancestors simple joy, start by planting a garden.
The whole world is trying hard and hard to achieve happiness and ultimate satisfaction. The criteria of happiness varies asper where you are borne, which religion you follow, the country where you are living. Some religion teach to fight and win the people of other religion. To convert them by force or bribes. If they don't accept the winner's religion then kill them loot the women, money etc. It's the saying of old testament. Which is mostly followed by Islam even today in 21st century. Christians are also trying to spread Christianity by the other ways not cruelly as Islam.
The only way to get ultimate satisfaction is to live and let the others live. Don't kill animals to feed yourself. Love all not only human beings but also all animals. Love, everything existing in the universe. The soil, jungles, Waters, stones,. Etc.
But, one warning here, we must have a complete fully explanatory definition of human being. To whom we can call humans, is a big question. All two legged humans can't be real humans. We have many many two legged (human ) demons putting the whole world under terrorism.
And we must not help them by mind and financially. IMF must not provide financial help to any terrorist country.
This will bring peace and satisfaction to all. 🙏🙏🌹