Thoughts on The Good Life
What is the good life? What is good in life? I know that in our culture the good life would commonly be described as a cush job, a big house, a boat, a sport car and a membership at the club. I agree that all sounds pretty good. But often the good life is at a great cost.How many hours do we work to pay for all those things? How much of our energy is spent? How much of our emotion is put into it? And on an enviromental level, how much of our planets resources are we using up?
Does making more money give you more freedom?
Sometimes I wonder if life was better before computers.
What if all of our decisions were made for a good life? What if the good life was not measured by how much you accumulate, but by how much you gave? What if the true sign of a good life was not the car you drive or the house you live in, or the veiw from it; but a true sign was a healthy relationship. What if the good life was made up of love. That's cheasy.
Challenge: Give up something that you love, but don't need. Let me know what it is and how your excperience goes.
I'm going to give up pop for one week. This is hard because we just got a case of Diet Cherry Coke and I love it. I'll let you know how it goes.
posted by Tim Oas @ 10:38 AM
1 Comments:
Tim, I like it. The 'good life' seems to be that place where our satisfaction is not exceeded by our desire for more...the ability to be content I guess. It is ironic that those who have near death experiences are often for the moment very thankful for everything they have--for life and for love. They need nothing more...it is moments like that we realize that we have everything we need and don't need much of what we have.
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