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Turns out operating conferences in American cities is a costly proposition... Thankfully I have an audience that's supporting me so far.
My life's work is surviving. Everything I do and have done has been to keep myself alive to some degree or another. Everything else is just a bunch of distractions and abstractions that boil down to same thing at the end of the day.
My children, and hopefully eventually grandchildren. Making sure they grow up to be good people and are happy.
My life's work is surviving. Everything I do and have done has been to keep myself alive to some degree or another. Everything else is just a bunch of distractions and abstractions that boil down to same thing at the end of the day.
Love this answer. Sometimes I feel like "merely" surviving is looked down upon, but the art of survival is the only lasting thing we can hand down the generations. The environment changes so rapidly (especially in the Anthropocene) that usually the best we can do is figure out how to survive right now . Anything else is superfluous if we can't do that.
> “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
Chilling out, maxin, relaxing all cool. More seriously, learning. We have enough of everything. Almost all of the technological breakthroughs I can think of have eventually been used to excess and ended up crippling us in some way, I'm quite content with just being.
I've been heavily influenced by my hobbies and upbringing (almost went pro as a musician, had a heavily religious childhood) to treat life as my practice, so I just try to establish fundamental basics and work on them incrementally over time. Just focus on the journey and the nuance of each breath, each step and how fulfilled I feel... less on the big numbers and milestones and fanfare.