You live one life and then you die.
That’s what makes it so valuable.
You go on vacations for a week and then you return to your old boring reality. Monday you are on vacations and next Monday you are back at work.
Your vacations are even more boring than your work. But it’s different kind of boring.
And there’s only ONE WEEK of it.
The contrast is what makes it so valuable. You are a different person for a week. You live a DIFFERENT LIFE.
And the scarcity is what makes it so valuable. There’s only one week of it. Therefore you value it.
There’s one good thing about NOT having time — you VALUE time.
If you are TRULY busy, not fake-busy like most people — you learn to VALUE time.
If you only have 8h to get that project done — you will value every hour.
If you only have 8h to relax and unwind — you will value every hour.
Then there’s the CONTRAST aspect.
The CONTRAST aspect is interesting and misunderstood.
CONTRAST is how you differentiate between things.
When there’s no contrast — you perceive no difference.
Thus everything is the same. Which is pretty fucking boring.
We think it’s so amazing to have EVERYTHING.
But everything is nothing.
When everything is present all the time — then you don’t value it. You fail to distinguish it. You fail to conceive of not having it. Therefore you fail to conceive of having it. Everything is nothing.
Contrast is vital.
You live one life and then you die. It’s finite. And there’s a fucking contrast. Boring death and vibrant life.
That’s what makes it so valuable.
Why not have multiple lives?
How would you achieve that?
It would have to be FINITE — so that you even value it.
There would have to be a CLEAR CONTRAST — so that you even perceive the difference.
You want to be happy and excited and satisfied with your life and lives,
Why not live MULTIPLE lives?
Stop trying to make everything so perfect in your single life,
Why not have MULTIPLE lives?
Instead of integrating everything into your single life, having everything present in your single life — why not actually ACCENTUATE THE DIFFERENCE,
Why not make them MORE different, MORE separated?
This is how they will come apart,
How your life will double and triple.
Take “work life balance”,
If everything is work — then NOTHING is work.
Likewise if everything is leisure and fun — then NOTHING is leisure, nothing is fun.
Some of us pride ourselves in “working all the time”. Granted it’s better than seeking meaningless leisure all the time and half-assing work the rest of the time.
But if everything is work — then NOTHING is work. If you have the power to say that you work all the time — then how do you know you truly “work” at all?
“Work-life balance” is GREAT. Because when you’re SERIOUS about your work — it will force you to utilise those “work hours” to the FULLEST.
If you work “all the time” — you always have another hour to finish that project or make that extra buck.
Well if you always have a back up, always have another chance — then you are never forced to give it your maximum.
Again: most people never give maximum anyway. They only work so pay the bills, pretend they do something, and that’s it. They don’t give a fuck.
But if you care about your work, truly DEEPLY care — then having LESS TIME for it will actually BENEFIT it.
You will REALLY get the most out of it.
And OBVIOUSLY the same is true about “leisure”,
You’ll get the MOST out of your leisure if it’s LIMITED.
You don’t value that which is present in abundance.
Live two or three lives
That means splitting your current life into multiple parts.
That means SACRIFICE
Up until you split your life, you theoretically have everything present on demand at any moment. You can work, you can slack, you can play, you can study, you can travel, etc. You can choose any of that at any moment, theoretically.
When you SPLIT your life — you deliberately REMOVE some of those possibilities — and place them in one of your other lives.
This of course is a sacrifice of that possibility. You SACRIFICE an aspect of your life — and in that sacrifice — you create ANOTHER LIFE — in which that thing is present.
Sacrifice absolutely has deep purpose. There’s no value without sacrifice. You don’t value that which doesn’t cost anything.
Therefore make a sacrifice — and split your life in two or three, or whatever number.
DO create “arbitrary” rules to how you split your life. DO restrain your “freedom” and “spontaneity”.
As long as you are AWARE of the rules you create and WHY you create them — you are still free. The problem lies in rules we subconsciously fetter ourselves with, and imprison ourselves
Understand that life USED to be LIMITED in many ways:
-the seasons would change
-thus what you’d eat would change
-there was no plane nearby to jump to the other side of the planet
-you couldn’t just meet 1000 new people either
-you couldn’t know everything about everyone and everything every second
-you couldn’t just throw away stuff and buy new
-you didn’t just quit your job and sell your house
All that freedom is modern, and it’s overrated.
True FREEDOM is within. Outward manifestation of freedom is overrated. It’s just empty exploit of power to kill boredom and give pleasure. And killing boredom makes you even more bored. And indulging in pleasure only makes you more numb.
Incorporate some of such SEASONALITY into your life.
Incorporate some of such sacrifice into your life.
What will result is your LIFE will split in two or three
You will live MANY different lives with many different features — not just one boring life in which you had all the modern comforts and all your vain rituals and also all your stupid opinions.
And you will value each life more — when you know it will pass any moment.
You will value EVERY HOUR more
Split your life. Get over this nonsense of having everything all the time, or “working all the time”, or delusion of “freedom” based on any external factor
Live multiple lives
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