Has the world gone bad because we forgot to see the good in it, or did we stop seeing the good because the world has gone bad?
Doing things with passion is great. But sometimes, it’s just plain work, nothing exciting, something that just has to be done. Passion is more like an afterburner, the glorious moment after finishing the job.
My father’s uncle was an old school gentleman. Whenever he met a friend, he bowed a bit and politely said hello. A firm handshake and words of kindness, genuine inquiry about family and health. Respect was the name of that time.
Happiness. The great illusion. The holy grail. An escape that provides us with everything but freedom. The striving that brings us closer to the end of life without meaning. The goal that makes us buy things we don’t really need, do things we really don’t want to, believe in things that we…