I had to take a quick break from mowing the lawn to jot down this idea.
The title came to me as I was mowing the lawn, struggling for breath with my mask on. I wear it for two reasons:
- I like it when I’m weed-wacking
- I like oxygen deprecation training to strengthen my body.
As I was struggling to breathe a little, I thought of my exercise routines with the mask on. I thought of how strong I believe this makes me against disease. And I thought of how many people would refuse to do this work, even if they knew it could harden them against death.
I started playing through the talk in my mind. I began by equating it to money instead of life. Then I felt like life itself, we’re it not so damned equinimitous, would be insulted at the idea that we value money over it.
People will jump through a thousand hoops to make it keep their money, but it seems most of us are unwilling to do the same to make it keep our lives. So many of us would rather kill ourselves for money, then pay for pills and surgeries to create the image of a healthy life.
I’d rather cut out the middle man, but alas, so far I haven’t made it to such dizzying heights in the financial sphere. So as it is, I work hard to build and maintain my life, and in addition must work hard for my money…
I’m a huge believer in the law of attraction, but I don’t think mutual exclusivity exists herein. I will attract what I earn, and it will be tuned according to that on which I focus. But the bottom line is, if you won’t work for it, you don’t deserve it. Maybe you’ll still get it. Maybe you’ll also lose it. And maybe, if you go through all that, you’ll find on the other side, that if you weren’t willing to work for it, it was never yours in the first place.
LOL - whatever dude. This was just on my mind and I wanted to say it. I gotta get back to the lawn :)
EDIT: I’m not suggesting that oxygen deprivation training is for everyone. Our work is different, each and every one of us. We all know, if we dig deep enough, what is the work we need to do for our own lives.
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Some people certainly get it without working for it. For example tell the above to the politicians of my country (Hungary). All they do is stealing. They are very corrupt. And the people still voted for them again. Another four years of stealing.
Sorry for the delayed response!!
I think that is a common theme among politicians. It’s a shame we haven’t found a better way to build and maintain societies for ourselves…instead we as a species continue to accept living under the rule of liars and thieves who parade around under the guise of being civil servants.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there are some who hold into good intentions, but even they must operate within a system which is rigged against humanity. The whole damned thing is tragic.
I usually avoid discussing politics, but seriously, I wonder how many wars would have been avoided if we weren’t being fooled and shoved through the wringer by these packs of shitheads. Sorry. It’s a topic I avoid, but not one about which I don’t sometimes get worked up.
I’m sorry to hear that leadership is just as much bullshit in Hungary as it is in the US. My uncle Laslo came here from Hungary. He was much older - actually, he was married to my grandfather’s sister, so he wasn’t technically my uncle but that’s what I always called him - he taught me how to aim and shoot, how to survive in the mountains, and a few words in Hungarian, (though he never told me much about where he came from) and I always thought he was the damned coolest.
Stay well, Kola, hopefully we can forge the beginnings of a new future for humanity in this lifetime.