Contentment

I want to improve the execution of putting small things back into their place around me.  I have no patience for moving dishes to put away pans.  I detest the minutia of having to walk downstairs to put something back where it is supposed to go.  I’m pretty stinkin’ lazy when it comes to maintaining the space around me in physical order.

That’s what’s natural to my spirit and drive.  But that doesn’t mean I have to be subject to my spirit and drive. I recognize that, as a human being, my mind is the most valuable asset I own–the only thing I truly own outright and clear.  I was given my mind at birth and I have grown it over three decades.  I have abused it at times.  I have neglected it at times.  I have refused to listen to the value of its experience countless times.  But it has remained with me–always working, always collecting, always organizing things into the most convenient places.

My mind is just like me as your mind is like you. My mind is me as your mind is you. Our minds work with the same biological mechanics but the emotional movie clips within our minds contain different stories.  It is these stories and our willingness to engage their narrative as it is happening, which determines the differences between our mortal lives.  The choices we make determine the people we are.

Many people I have spoken with of late, some of them close to me, are acting like the end has already come and gone, ready to roll willingly into the graves they have dug for themselves in their minds. But I have a message for those people:

The world is still spinning.  No one has died of hunger in the streets yet.  Our houses are still warm and our milk is still cold.  We still have a vote to exercise in two weeks.

Americans have never been defined by the choices others make for us.  Rather, we will continue to be defined by our resistance to the effects of the choices others make for us and therefore to the choices themselves.

  • We do not have to have an economy built on an ever-present system of warfare and conquest.
  • We do not have to allow the scientific method and the collective body of its wisdom to become chained once again under the cruel master of organized faith.
  • We do not have to cater to the most ignorant among us–who live their lives on the level of scurrying marsupials concerned primarily with their own health, wealth and progeny at the expense of everyone else’s.

Hatred, ignorance, violence and (worst of all) laziness are all natural to our collective spirit and drive.  But this doesn’t mean we must subject ourselves to their deleterious effects.  We are the most intelligent known creature ever to evolve to personal consciousness in our solar system. But we are each pulled by primordial forces which must be overcome internally before we hit that level of sustainment we need to detach ourselves from this planet and become an interstellar traveling species, a logical evolutionary “next step” we rest on the cusp of at this very moment.

We have to learn the patience and execution of action needed to put the little shit back in its place every time.  If we can’t make the personal choice to create order in the spaces around us then we may as well dig our mind graves and roll into them while they’re fresh and the worms are still hungry.

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