I Find Hope For The Living Planet In Peak Resources

I don't dream about being a billionaire. When I heard the stories about Jesus as a young kid in Catholic school, I longed for living in the past. Simple lives on a planet full of life. Being raised by a tribe, instead of other children on the playground.

I took a detour in my ambition to live in the past. I became obsessed with luxury cars, and fantasized about these fancy boxes on wheels all day. But I let go of that "want".

The meme is that humans had miserable short lives before industrial civilisation. Our time is the best of all times. I don't think you can measure happiness, not now, not 100 000 years ago. 

The low average age of past people was mostly because of childhood illnesses that are now prevented with vaccines. If, in the past, you made it to 18 years old, you had a great chance of living to a ripe old age.

People also want to grow old, but no one wants to be old. The people I know who grew very old, were hoping for the sweet release of death.

I am rooting for "The Great Simplification" when we are going to run out of the resources for economic growth. The great shrink. Fossil fuels are irreplaceable one-to-one and non-renewable. So are synthetic fertilizers.

If luxury, comfort, wealth... is what gives your life meaning, you will have a hard time accepting a future of less. But thanks to Mindfulness, I find as much joy in the present moment, in simple things, as I would speccing a Porsche 911 Turbo with a super model brunette on my arm. It's a matter of practice. Happiness is found in the present moment. Not the future. And not the past.


peace ✌️💜

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