Wow.
There is a view I have of myself: mostly suffering, struggling. Not happy, not at peace, agitated, dissatisfied with my own performance, and usually a bit irritated at everything around me.
And yet, day after day recently, I have been ok. Do stuff at work or at home. Deal with stuff as it pops up, like the unexpected car repair needed.
Is it too much to ask? Dare I hope for the dominant mindset mode to be like this? Not taking myself too seriously, remembering scale (who I am in the big scheme of things), remembering relations (who am I in relationship to other people around me), remembering time (soon enough this little flame of consciousness on the planet will be sniffed out)?
Is it really true that it’s just a matter of spiritual maintenance?
Input/output. Whatever I’m doing now seems to be working. Keep doing it. Read. Write a little note or two here when something pops into your head.
Related: the Gary Vaynerchuk comment about the worthlessness of ideas/knowledge and the value of action. “The difference between knowing you have to do push-ups and doing push-ups.”
Which reminds me. The Tens has fallen off recently. Let’s get back to it.