Yes. Leaving simply has always been one of my main compass. Everything will end soon enough, this mystery, no need to complicate things. Welcome yourself as you are. Don't spend your life trying to escape or better yourself. "This" doesn't need to be perfect, to be perfect. 🙏
After 2 years of essentially "opting out" in some ways, I'm slowly coming back to life. Getting energy back. I got offered quite a juicy opportunity in the last few weeks. Something Ive already been doing for 8 years. So I have proof of concept. And its quite lucrative. Someone wants to scale it. They wanted me involved. They dont want "steal" it off me.
I told them no this morning. Told them to just crack on with it themselves, and I hope they do well, and I'll help them as much as I can. But I dont wanna do it. I just want simplicity. I want to follow my heart. Not chase money.
Its so good to hear how much this break is re-orienting you Shiv. Thank you for this confirmation for me today, in re-oreinting myself too.
“What we do know is that everything is as it is. And in order to appreciate what is, we must be comfortable being as we are.”
It seems that task is becoming evermore difficult as we fall down the rabbit hole of artificial intelligence and computer generated images. As you mention, we are so addicted to our tech we no longer feel the anxiety it generates within us and may actually miss the high we get from it.
If we slow down we reconnect with the cycles of Nature, the seasons of our life - birth, life, death. It seems we will do most anything to deny and avoid that last phase of the cycle. Much of the frantic activity that fills our modern lives is an attempt to avoid the reality of our mortality and to create instead a symbolic life based on imagined purposes which will give us symbolic immortality and give some logical meaning to our brief appearance on life’s stage.
To slow down and be “comfortable as we are” means grieving our own death and remaining in our fragile bodies. This is an increasingly difficult task with all the ways we have devised specifically to avoid this fate.
I've tried to read your stuff several times in hopes that something of substance or useful relevancy might peek through your literary indulgences, but I only find the musings of a guy who thinks he knows stuff and has kernels of wisdom to share. I'm glad you appeal to enough folks to help support your family. Why you even mention words like enlightenment or provide commentary on a dream escapes me. Enjoy the snow!
In the same mind set😉 no tv, no social media. Only connection... your posts🙏 reading, fireplace, extreme hot tea. So simple...
Yes. Leaving simply has always been one of my main compass. Everything will end soon enough, this mystery, no need to complicate things. Welcome yourself as you are. Don't spend your life trying to escape or better yourself. "This" doesn't need to be perfect, to be perfect. 🙏
‘This doesn’t need to be perfect, to be perfect.” Well said, I like that.
This is beautiful, Shiv! I totally resonate. Very moving. Thank you!
Thanks Joan
Gosh this was timely.
After 2 years of essentially "opting out" in some ways, I'm slowly coming back to life. Getting energy back. I got offered quite a juicy opportunity in the last few weeks. Something Ive already been doing for 8 years. So I have proof of concept. And its quite lucrative. Someone wants to scale it. They wanted me involved. They dont want "steal" it off me.
I told them no this morning. Told them to just crack on with it themselves, and I hope they do well, and I'll help them as much as I can. But I dont wanna do it. I just want simplicity. I want to follow my heart. Not chase money.
Its so good to hear how much this break is re-orienting you Shiv. Thank you for this confirmation for me today, in re-oreinting myself too.
“What we do know is that everything is as it is. And in order to appreciate what is, we must be comfortable being as we are.”
It seems that task is becoming evermore difficult as we fall down the rabbit hole of artificial intelligence and computer generated images. As you mention, we are so addicted to our tech we no longer feel the anxiety it generates within us and may actually miss the high we get from it.
If we slow down we reconnect with the cycles of Nature, the seasons of our life - birth, life, death. It seems we will do most anything to deny and avoid that last phase of the cycle. Much of the frantic activity that fills our modern lives is an attempt to avoid the reality of our mortality and to create instead a symbolic life based on imagined purposes which will give us symbolic immortality and give some logical meaning to our brief appearance on life’s stage.
To slow down and be “comfortable as we are” means grieving our own death and remaining in our fragile bodies. This is an increasingly difficult task with all the ways we have devised specifically to avoid this fate.
Yes this divorce from a cyclical form of living - has robbed us of the art of letting go. Well put
Simply wonderful.
Simply this.
Your piece has deeply struck a chord with me.
Arigato, Shiv!
(That song is epic)
Right on!
So desu! Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu, Tomodachi!
Wonderful post. Great to bring your kids. Thanks for posting.
Amen, brother! ("Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver 🤠 is more my speed❤️)
And may God bless 🙏🏼our sorry-ass, perfectly-imperfect world😔
I've tried to read your stuff several times in hopes that something of substance or useful relevancy might peek through your literary indulgences, but I only find the musings of a guy who thinks he knows stuff and has kernels of wisdom to share. I'm glad you appeal to enough folks to help support your family. Why you even mention words like enlightenment or provide commentary on a dream escapes me. Enjoy the snow!