There is so much to unpack in determining what makes one happy; I know, for me, the more I embraced spirituality and simplified my life the happier I became. Our culture sets a very high bar for being "happy", without acknowledging that happiness is on a continuum and shifts from moment to moment. I look forward to hearing from Dan Harris on this topic (and a timely guest!).
The World Happiness Report needs to be looked into, the methodology, questions, etc. It seems like some of the 'happy' places may also have high suicide rates. ?? I'm thinking of Sweden and Finland. Food for thought. I'm with on loving now and self.
no surprise about the numbers above. lol... boomers gots da cash and the youngsters are learning competency as adults via the internet.... and the natural world, the one out there, is suspect of continuance....
oh, there are so many lenses to look at it all through.... but what I see out in the real world, not that I do more than peel around on my fat-tired ebike with Carl the dog toggled on, is an increase in agitation along the riparian habitat between those that gots the cash and goods and land etc, and those what don't............
I used to walk with an indigenous woman in the country. She wore a t-shirt that said,
"We don't need therapy. We need money."
Was it really money, they needed, or was it more likely they needed power in their own lives again, like before, when they had not yet been saved..... and when I say 'saved' I mean it like Amy Tan did, in Saving fish from Dying....
Young people are in the thick of the agitation...yet all us old fatties with sacs full o' cash and heads full of entitlement might consider a Swedish Death Cleanse and an enema.
I heard this somewhere: "Swim to the middle of the river. You might not, but the River knows where it is going."
There is so much to unpack in determining what makes one happy; I know, for me, the more I embraced spirituality and simplified my life the happier I became. Our culture sets a very high bar for being "happy", without acknowledging that happiness is on a continuum and shifts from moment to moment. I look forward to hearing from Dan Harris on this topic (and a timely guest!).
The World Happiness Report needs to be looked into, the methodology, questions, etc. It seems like some of the 'happy' places may also have high suicide rates. ?? I'm thinking of Sweden and Finland. Food for thought. I'm with on loving now and self.
no surprise about the numbers above. lol... boomers gots da cash and the youngsters are learning competency as adults via the internet.... and the natural world, the one out there, is suspect of continuance....
oh, there are so many lenses to look at it all through.... but what I see out in the real world, not that I do more than peel around on my fat-tired ebike with Carl the dog toggled on, is an increase in agitation along the riparian habitat between those that gots the cash and goods and land etc, and those what don't............
I used to walk with an indigenous woman in the country. She wore a t-shirt that said,
"We don't need therapy. We need money."
Was it really money, they needed, or was it more likely they needed power in their own lives again, like before, when they had not yet been saved..... and when I say 'saved' I mean it like Amy Tan did, in Saving fish from Dying....
Young people are in the thick of the agitation...yet all us old fatties with sacs full o' cash and heads full of entitlement might consider a Swedish Death Cleanse and an enema.
I heard this somewhere: "Swim to the middle of the river. You might not, but the River knows where it is going."