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Those who have much always want more. So when can we be happy? Let's find out.
A problem many people have is that they want the best and there's always something better ahead. If they wait a little bit more, if they spend some years on education and then get a good job and then they can afford a huge property and everything they want and need. But the reality is that those who have much, they just want more. And those who want more, they're never happy. You don't need more, you don't need a lot. To be happy, to be self-sustainable and so forth.
I think I saw one permaculturist who said that he had 600 square meters and it was enough to feed his entire family. 600 square meters. Of course it depends on where you live, the climate and so forth. But still, you don't need a huge property to be self-sustainable. And I would have liked to have a sorceress tower, Isengard and maybe a Moria(?) connected to the tower and that huge area with a forest on one side and a big lake and a waterfall and... a lot of things you want, right?
But we are not kings and we don't deserve all that. That's a hard pill to swallow. No matter what the commercials tell you, you don't deserve everything. You don't deserve that big widescreen TV. You don't deserve the huge BMW. They're fooling you and you are fooling yourself. You can't have all those horses you want to have running around free in the field. That's not reality. Reality is that you have to settle at some point. You have to accept that you can't have everything and unless you grab the opportunity that is less than what you want, more often than not you're gonna end up with nothing.[1]You're just gonna move the goalpost all the time because essentially this way of thinking is greed. it's a, in a sense, megalomania. You can imagine that you can have more and you think that you deserve it. Why? Why do you think that? Your forebears were happy with less.
And this connects to what I said yesterday about education and feeding the system. Because all those who just want to do a couple of more years with hard work, education, to get a good job and so forth,[2]they're still feeding the system, still feeding the monster, still giving money to those who destroy us. They're financing our own destruction.[3]Only because they, they're not happy with a small property and a crappy, fungi infected house that they have to do something about in order to make it livable. No. They want it all. It's greed.
And you know what? Greed is why we are in this shit situation to begin with.[4]Greed, greed, greed. Many have too much but nobody has enough. They always want more.
I don't have much, but I am so Happy I even spend some time every single day thinking "What did I do to deserve this good life?". Hamingja!
A problem many people have is that they want the best and there's always something better ahead. If they wait a little bit more, if they spend some years on education and then get a good job and then they can afford a huge property and everything they want and need. But the reality is that those who have much, they just want more. And those who want more, they're never happy. You don't need more, you don't need a lot. To be happy, to be self-sustainable and so forth.
I think I saw one permaculturist who said that he had 600 square meters and it was enough to feed his entire family. 600 square meters. Of course it depends on where you live, the climate and so forth. But still, you don't need a huge property to be self-sustainable. And I would have liked to have a sorceress tower, Isengard and maybe a Moria(?) connected to the tower and that huge area with a forest on one side and a big lake and a waterfall and... a lot of things you want, right?
But we are not kings and we don't deserve all that. That's a hard pill to swallow. No matter what the commercials tell you, you don't deserve everything. You don't deserve that big widescreen TV. You don't deserve the huge BMW. They're fooling you and you are fooling yourself. You can't have all those horses you want to have running around free in the field. That's not reality. Reality is that you have to settle at some point. You have to accept that you can't have everything and unless you grab the opportunity that is less than what you want, more often than not you're gonna end up with nothing.[1]You're just gonna move the goalpost all the time because essentially this way of thinking is greed. it's a, in a sense, megalomania. You can imagine that you can have more and you think that you deserve it. Why? Why do you think that? Your forebears were happy with less.
And this connects to what I said yesterday about education and feeding the system. Because all those who just want to do a couple of more years with hard work, education, to get a good job and so forth,[2]they're still feeding the system, still feeding the monster, still giving money to those who destroy us. They're financing our own destruction.[3]Only because they, they're not happy with a small property and a crappy, fungi infected house that they have to do something about in order to make it livable. No. They want it all. It's greed.
And you know what? Greed is why we are in this shit situation to begin with.[4]Greed, greed, greed. Many have too much but nobody has enough. They always want more.
I don't have much, but I am so Happy I even spend some time every single day thinking "What did I do to deserve this good life?". Hamingja!
- Or as a debt slave serving the monster that is destroying us.
- To get a dream property and a big house and so forth.
- And they are greedy so they will never stop wanting more.
- Our greed, that "somebody" is actively cultivating.