Being content
Being content is not easy. As it feels like being content is the opposite of being successful. Sometimes it feels like the lazy philosopher's tactic to make proud of a losing battle. But is it really? Let's hear some Jim Carry philosophy.
I love him as a character and as a comedian. He could be the Charlie Chaplin of his era. But what's with comedians are fond of philosophy? Maybe they have a different view than us about life as they always see the comedy in it.
I just listened to it again. 👌 wow, he is full of philosophy. In his speech in Golden Globe awards 2016 he said the following.
"I am two times Golden Globe winner Jim Carry. When I sleep at night, I'm not just a guy going to sleep. I'm two times Golden Globe winner Jim Carry going to get some well needed shut eye. And when I dream, I don't dream ordinary dreams, no sir, I dream about being three times Golden globe winner, because then it would be enough. To end this terrible search".
Jim Carrey Philosophy
That there is a summary of most of our lives. All our lives we are in search of something. For some it is success. For some it is peace. And when it is not there, we call them dreams. And we forget how why and where these dreams came from. At what point we became obsessed with them and most of the time when we ask these questions, we are too old to comprehend. And there is no choice but to carry it until death. For Jim it was about Golden globes. I am sure for Elon it is about multiplanetary consciousness. For me and you and for the ordinary it maybe about a happy family. But the information doesn't allow us to stop at the level of happiness.
Information just keeps on building another layer. When we try to be content in our one storied home, it shows us two storied one with a pool. When we try to break ourselves achieving that dream in five years of hard work, they just build a cutting-edge Tesla. And my Neighbour starts laughing at me looking at my antique junk tuck. Finally, when someone becomes a good writer, they want a series of novels from you and when I wrote just one post about being content, everyone gets into a fight to outrank this. Ha 😁 ha ha. It's the Rat 🐀 race which keeps us from enjoying life and being content.
On this lovely afternoon, sitting by the lagoon, I ask myself. What do I want to be happy? When would it be enough? And the answers are clear. You don't need anything other than what you already have as when you are aware you become detached from the film which is called life. I look at little bit of hunger and let it be. I feel the wind and let it be. I look at the couple who walk past me and let it be. Everything the uneasiness, the happiness, and sadness, the clouds and the trees, they all deserve to be, without my conscious awareness, they would just do that. How selfish am I if I needed more than what the nature offered.
How to be content?
Being content is difficult rather impossible unless we see the magician in our minds. Like a Gene of the Aladin's lamp he creates a story of Arabian nights each and every day and makes us forget the Deamon of death. Let's look at how Jim concluded his speech to get more wisdom.
"These awards are important. If we blew up the solar system into dust although we would not find us or our entire human history in naked eye, yet these awards are important, from our perspective."
That there is the answer to our problem of being content. When we look at from perspective from the society we live in, it would never be enough. Yet, if we see ourselves in the perspective of life, it is already perfect. As we all are just marbles hiding perfect statues of David inside of us. We just have to find it.
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