Tag: action

What a swizz

Posted on by philipdodson

We are so conditioned to be driven by the outcome or result.

Our society is based on winners and losers, achievements and other things that can be easily measured by increases, like a bigger salary, a bigger house, a bigger job and so on.

The obsession with productivity, action and results is not enriching our lives it is killing our souls instead.

It is the biggest swizz of more modern history and the industrial age. We have allowed our worth to be linked to what we do or have. It’s great for keeping us as cogs in the machine, slaves to work, slaves to a lifestyle, slaves to debt, slaves to the mind.

An alternative is to accept that we are born worthy and will die worthy no matter what we achieve or have, thus freeing us from the conditioning and the mind to allow our souls to be free.

We can still do whatever we want, but we do not let it define or enslave us.

A few nanoseconds

Posted on by philipdodson

So the earth is 4.5 something billion years old, well so we are told, none of us actually know that, but anyway, humans appeared 200,000 years ago, again so we are told. So if you condensed the time that earth has existed into one day, then we’d appear at 23.59 and 57 seconds, so just 3 seconds of that day have we been here! Mind you, we’ve certainly not hung about, we’ve done a lot in those 3 seconds, sadly most of it not so good, to be honest.

Taking it a step further, if each of us lived to say 100 years old, we’d only represent about 100,000 nanoseconds, and if you think that 100,000 nanoseconds sound like a lot, there are a billion in just one second.

The point is we’re not here very long. Enjoy the moment, don’t think, do stuff that matters, enjoy, love, laugh, smile, dance, sing, paint…and just be, be the real you. Oh and don’t give a shit, you haven’t got time to be bothered, angry, frustrated, envious, jealous, hateful and so on.

A few nanoseconds will be gone in less than a blink of an eye.