Who keeps me company: Morpheus and Romeo
What inspires this drifting thought: BT - The Road to Lostwithiel
Where this will lead me: dreaming and sleeping are completely different. i'll go dreaming.
Standing in the middle of the street tonight, hovering over my bike and surrounded by freaks and fire, I was transported to one of my favorite places on the planet. It made me so happy to see so many people out and about simply enjoying the evening, and while I was standing there I had one of those moments.
You know.. the kind of moment where you realize how amazing life is, and you get this tingly sensation throughout your body. I'm sure you've had at least one of those moments. Anyhow.. I got to thinking out there "what makes me feel so happy.. and what makes all these people happy right now?" I seem to have a hobby of analyzing what makes people happy. I think the real answer is how simple everything was for them, and for me. The more you complicate your struggle for happiness, the further away you push yourself from your goal. All of the happiest people I know are also the ones who live simply. Not to be confused with living poorly, just simple living. Simple concepts for attaining their goals. It's so easy to get caught up in social ladders, career goals, and materialistic efforts that you just completely lose sight of what it is that you were seeking in the first place; good friends that really understand you and that you relate to, food and shelter, and wanting to fit in.. which really just loops back to people who understand you.
There is a story that I know, which goes something like this:
A wealthy businessman who goes on holiday to an idyllic fishing village. He notices a local man sitting at the end of a jetty dressed in tatty shorts and a straw hat. The man is fishing and by his side is a pile of fish. The businessman approaches the fisherman and asks him what he is doing. "I've been fishing" he says, "and I'm going to take these fish home and cook them for my family's supper". Amused, the businessman tells him that he should take a more commercial approach. "Build a business", he tells the fisherman. "You could develop a fishing fleet and then distribute these fish all over the world". The businessman goes on to advise him to move to the city and make so much money that he would be able to enjoy the kind of retirement that the businessman has planned.
Looking rather bemused, the fisherman asks the businessman just what it is that he proposes to do in retirement. "Oh! I'm going to buy myself a little place by the sea and spend most of my day in the sun relaxing and fishing, taking life nice and easy".
Life can be as amazing or as mundane as you allow it to be, is my point, and it has nothing to do with your social/economic/political status, but simply your frame of mind.
What inspires this drifting thought: BT - The Road to Lostwithiel
Where this will lead me: dreaming and sleeping are completely different. i'll go dreaming.
Standing in the middle of the street tonight, hovering over my bike and surrounded by freaks and fire, I was transported to one of my favorite places on the planet. It made me so happy to see so many people out and about simply enjoying the evening, and while I was standing there I had one of those moments.
You know.. the kind of moment where you realize how amazing life is, and you get this tingly sensation throughout your body. I'm sure you've had at least one of those moments. Anyhow.. I got to thinking out there "what makes me feel so happy.. and what makes all these people happy right now?" I seem to have a hobby of analyzing what makes people happy. I think the real answer is how simple everything was for them, and for me. The more you complicate your struggle for happiness, the further away you push yourself from your goal. All of the happiest people I know are also the ones who live simply. Not to be confused with living poorly, just simple living. Simple concepts for attaining their goals. It's so easy to get caught up in social ladders, career goals, and materialistic efforts that you just completely lose sight of what it is that you were seeking in the first place; good friends that really understand you and that you relate to, food and shelter, and wanting to fit in.. which really just loops back to people who understand you.
There is a story that I know, which goes something like this:
A wealthy businessman who goes on holiday to an idyllic fishing village. He notices a local man sitting at the end of a jetty dressed in tatty shorts and a straw hat. The man is fishing and by his side is a pile of fish. The businessman approaches the fisherman and asks him what he is doing. "I've been fishing" he says, "and I'm going to take these fish home and cook them for my family's supper". Amused, the businessman tells him that he should take a more commercial approach. "Build a business", he tells the fisherman. "You could develop a fishing fleet and then distribute these fish all over the world". The businessman goes on to advise him to move to the city and make so much money that he would be able to enjoy the kind of retirement that the businessman has planned.
Looking rather bemused, the fisherman asks the businessman just what it is that he proposes to do in retirement. "Oh! I'm going to buy myself a little place by the sea and spend most of my day in the sun relaxing and fishing, taking life nice and easy".
Life can be as amazing or as mundane as you allow it to be, is my point, and it has nothing to do with your social/economic/political status, but simply your frame of mind.
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sadfaceclown:
You are definately "the geigh"
felixpdx:
thats what happens when aumie smokes weed. 