Tag: meaning

Money

Posted on by philipdodson

You can’t eat it, in fact, in the digital world, we hardly even have real hard cash in our hands anymore. It is only of value all the time we believe the myth.

The challenge now is many believe that it is the salvation to all their ills and pains. They believe that once they have money and plenty of it, then happiness will arrive.

Today, apparently, is International Happiness Day, a strange concept really, firstly why would it only be for one day, and secondly happiness is a short-term emotional spike that often lasts for a moment and is always associated with a corresponding down moment, so better to be realising the joy that is always with us in the present moment.

The thing is if, as many desire, you come into money, the unhappiness and happiness of life will not change, sure short-term there will be a chemical-fuelled hit to the body as we spend money like we never had. But within a short space of time, all our woes will still be there.

Better to look within and realise that there is always joy and peace to be had no matter what happens in our life situation. We are like a deep lake or sea, the surface maybe choppy, stormy or calm, but the deep sea or lake is always still no matter what.

Our inner energy and soul does not need money to have a meaningful life. We’re born rich no matter how much money we have.

Content consumption

Posted on by philipdodson

We used to read a newspaper in the morning or watch TV news at 9pm once a day.

Now we have 24-hour news channels, online news (fake and real), social media and more.

We used to call our friends once a week and share photos of our holiday once a year with family or friends.

Now we Snapchat them every few moments and upload pictures of ourselves, our lunch, our pets, our bikini, drops of rain running down windows, paint drying…you get the picture.

We used to read a magazine once a week or at the Doctor’s waiting room.

Now we have millions of blog sites, podcasts, and other online articles and information.

So what?

Has all this content consumption made any difference to our lives? Are we more purposeful? More healthy? Better informed? More educated? More represented? freer? More in control? Live with more meaning? More alive? More respectful? More empathetic? More anything that the content elicits we should do. Does any of this gorging of words and images get applied to our lives?

Perhaps we are just consumed by content, like some addictive disease and forgetting the essential thing, to actually live our lives in the present moment, the only moment we are actually alive. Is this the opium to avoid life?