It's not About the Stuff you Have

January 25th 2025

I don't care what god you believe in as long as you are good person, and you cause no harm to others. Life is an individual journey, and no one knows the meaning of life, it is a personal journey. If you need religion to keep you in check so, be it. My thought is the journey is within oneself. We cannot control things around us and our influence is so minimal and our time on the earth is so short, and we will pass without leaving a mark.

As our influence is so minimal and time so short why would one want to walk around and be a dick? While inherently humans have social structures that make for competition to promote one's genes, so much of it is spent on frivolous activity that consumes sacred resources, mainly time. The gods have given us nature to reflect upon and look for answers, from Albert Einstein, 'Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.'^[1]

Part of the curent American sickness is our ever-growing need for more stuff versus lasting experiences. We are repeatedly told our lives are some pictures of a reality that doesn't exist. We are constantly told we need things that don't add to a better mental state and put off the hard work of introspection. We will look to social media for validation that what our current want is good for us, and we get caught in a negative feedback loop that sends us on a quest for something that doesn't exist. We keep running until we have exhausted all our time and die never understanding our life while consuming ever more resources. This consumption has a lead to a society that can't handle disruptions to life as we need the validation of stuff to make us feel exceptional.

We have lost the idea that exceptionalism comes from being a free people with ideals and the pursuit of an individual idea. We are caught to consume and chase a life that does not exist versus understanding that having the time and answering to no master to do the hard work, the work on oneself is what truly matters.