by ray newman
The dominant topics of most people's conversation these days circulates around what I refer to as 'management of life" issues...earning or not earning enough money, paying bills, finding cheaper sources for a host of perceived necessary insurances (including auto, health, life, disability, travel, funeral and more), scheduling, confirming, changing, medical, dental and vision appointments, how friends, family, the famous, are mis/handling their personal disasters and setbacks, and on and on.
And not one of them interests me a whit...because they don't qualify as life living because:
* they are all concretes which do not touch our spirits, our souls
* they all lack the sweet and spicy aspects of life living...to wit, passion, excitement, thrills
* they lead not to an enhanced sense of well-being but to stress, despair, depression
* they are never endingly, monotonously, boringly, repetitious
* they utilize not one iota of our gifted capacity to explore, to contemplate, to create.
And therein is the major reason why cavemen, aborigines and primitives were more advanced than we are and lived fuller lives than we do. Yes they were and Yes they did. They did not mismanage their lives. Think of all the things they didn't spend time with: keeping up to date on cell phones, ipods, blackberries, computers, storing records for tax returns, listing access passwords, remembering zip codes, area codes, pin numbers, garbage pickup days, credit card numbers, etc., etc., etc.
Oh what a tangled web and mess
When first we practice to progress
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