Would you like to live in a world where every new day is similar to the previous one?

DaveC426913 said:
Well, one can experience growth and healing through discipline - think of learning a new instrument or similar.
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Yea, true. I wonder, though (relating back to the OT) - maybe it’s less about ''chasing'' newness and more about seeing the same day with new eyes? Maybe the real difference in each day (how we see it, anyway) comes from how we choose to show up to it. No two days will ever feel the same then (or remotely similar), with that perspective.
 
wegs said:
Yea, true. I wonder, though (relating back to the OT) - maybe it’s less about ''chasing'' newness and more about seeing the same day with new eyes? Maybe the real difference in each day (how we see it, anyway) comes from how we choose to show up to it. No two days will ever feel the same then (or remotely similar), with that perspective.
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It's sort of like regaining a childlike perceptions of everything.
 
wegs said:
Yea, true. I wonder, though (relating back to the OT) - maybe it’s less about ''chasing'' newness and more about seeing the same day with new eyes? Maybe the real difference in each day (how we see it, anyway) comes from how we choose to show up to it. No two days will ever feel the same then (or remotely similar), with that perspective.
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I think if I had sufficient raw materials around me, such as vegetation and an ever-sharp knife, I could keep from going crazy.

Of course, my version of "not-crazy" might look like a Gilligans's Island four-storey bamboo condo, with Wi-fi powered by coconut batteries...


Does anybody remember 1984 spoof "Top Secret!" with Val Kilmer?

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DaveC426913 said:
I think if I had sufficient raw materials around me, such as vegetation and an ever-sharp knife, I could keep from going crazy.

Of course, my version of "not-crazy" might look like a Gilligans's Island four-storey bamboo condo, with Wi-fi powered by coconut batteries...


Does anybody remember 1984 spoof "Top Secret!" with Val Kilmer?

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As you hallucinate from eating the wrong berries, you could still log on to SciForums. How amazing is that?
 
Olga 2 said:
Nothing bad, everything is comfortable, but also nothing new?
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I have an idea of a perfect day and I'd be happy for that day to repeat uneventfully eternally. Meanwhile everyday is pretty much the same ... I'd just like an upgrade on that 'sameness'.
 
ToR original said:
I have an idea of a perfect day and I'd be happy for that day to repeat uneventfully eternally. Meanwhile everyday is pretty much the same ... I'd just like an upgrade on that 'sameness'.
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Есть притча о старом льве, который всю жизнь прожил в клетке, и на старости лет люди решили выпустить его на свободу. Его вывезли в дикую природу, и открыли клетку. Лев вышел из клетки, вздохнул всей грудью. Где то вдали жили своей свободной жизнью другие животные, он слышал как они кричали, пели, рычали, охотились. Он слушал эти звуки свободы, вдыхал этот запах. Он долго так стоял. А затем вздохнул, повернулся, и зашёл обратно в свою клетку. Она стала частью его жизни, его жизнью. Он слишком долго в ней жил. У людей всё так же: если долго жить в своей "клетке", то уже нет ни сил, ни желания что то менять. Так и живут по инерции, пока не умрут.
 
Lumen said:
I have an idea of a perfect day and I'd be happy for that day to repeat uneventfully eternally. Meanwhile everyday is pretty much the same ... I'd just like an upgrade on that 'sameness'.
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It would be like only being alive for one day because you'd never acquire new memories. The brain wouldn't record 'sameness' to memory only 'difference'. You may as well live your one day and then exist in a coma until death.
 
I have been fully retired almost 10 years... but even in my 20s an laid off from a good paying job while making payments on a new mobile home... no worries... cause if me or my wife had a minimum wage job we could still pay the bills.!!!
The times I was laid off I worked odd jobs... janitor at a restaurant... pickin up trash at a parks an mowing/weed-eaten the grass.!!!
The odd jobs was kinda fun cause they didn't require much brain power :)
O... an the most taxing job I've ever had was baby sitting a 1 1/2 year old little girl till she was 2 years old.!!!
 
cluelusshusbund said:
O... an the most taxing job I've ever had was baby sitting a 1 1/2 year old little girl till she was 2 years old.!!!
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That's an awful long time to leave a child with a babysitter!! Hope you got overtime and double-pay for weekends! ;)
 
Sarkus said:
That's an awful long time to leave a child with a babysitter!! Hope you got overtime and double-pay for weekends! ;)
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Finally... some sympathy... thanks :D

I made $10 a week which I guess was good back in the 70s... so at least I had that goin for me :?
 
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