So, Saturday the 23rd of November 2024 and the title of today's reflection is going to be these little things. So like right now I'm currently thinking about something that somebody said. This something that somebody said, kind of like, is something that has kind of like stuck
with me, it's from somebody that I know, that is actually, I guess it's fair to say we're pretty close. And I like how I'm keeping it ambiguous, how I'm not talking about who the person is because it means that effectively it can come from anybody and only
when that person actually hears this or when this person kind of like reads this and understands, like only when that person reads this will they know that I'm effectively kind of like talking about them. But I think they said something about, I think they said a lot of things really to be honest, like there's so many things that we effectively spoke about that it's almost like there's a plethora of things that this guy actually said. But one of the things that I guess was kind of like stuck out to me, I guess it had something
to do with kind of like, I don't know, his way of thinking. His way of extracting happiness and meaning in life. Like, we all get roped up in the whole kind of like, I guess, phenomenon of keeping up with the Joneses. But then I also feel like it's, you know, keeping up with the Joneses isn't really
the best reference. The best reference is more so to do with a study that was done on monkeys, where effectively that monkey started treating each other a certain way. And when they brought like new monkeys into the experiment and they replaced like each monkey one by one and up until the point in which all the original monkeys were effectively removed from the experiment the new
monkeys were still treating themselves in the same way the old monkeys were treating themselves even though there was no real understanding or no real questioning as to why they're treating each other like this in the first place and I personally believe that a lot of our human conditioning is based on that circling that all the way back to what I was talking about when it comes to meaning and purpose. We like to think that the whole notion of growing
up, getting older, doing well in school, getting a good job, make lots of friends, have lots of experiences, get married, have children or whatever, get a house, move out, drive. All of these things are things that we add to the whole notion of what it means to be alive, right? But there's just a way about, there's this thing that this guy does and I don't understand it.
It's like basically almost like, it's borderline, it's almost touching, it's teetering on the borderline of like, you know, don't try so fucking hard to make a meaning or to make happiness out of something that, you know, it's almost like, you know,
being happy shouldn't be this difficult. We shouldn't have to go over all of these hurdles before we give ourselves the permission to be happy, if that makes sense. But yeah, I guess that's that really and truthfully. And if I get anything else that comes to mind,
then I'll mention it in a future reflection.
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