If you would look at the title of my blog, I claim that I am an average Juan Dela Cruz. Indeed I am. I live the same way as everybody else does. (As I write, my sister's pestering me to convince me to watch kimi dora which i think may well be pure rubbish!). I have wanted this for myself. To live a life that everybody else could relate to.
Working is not living.
Partying is not living.
Eating is not living.
Sleeping is not living.
Bumming around is not living.
Being able to focus on what's at hand is living.
Working when one is working.
Partying when one is partying.
Eating when one is eating.
Sleeping when one is sleeping.
*Bumming around is not living; resting when resting is living.
I got this idea from a Chinese proverb discussed in Ernie Zelinski's The Joy of Not Knowing It All.
Living is being able to focus on the present; the task at hand.
If one lives the present well. There should be neither be regrets in the past nor worries in the future.
I say this because up until a year ago. I was focused on accumulating as much wealth as possible; gain financial independence and live life or so I thought.
But living that kind of life is almost like not living your life at all. Pissing your years away. A real shame for mankind. Living this kind of life not only makes us empty but confirmed freeloaders in this earth. We are consuming-draining its resources without toiling for its betterment and progress. What else do you call that?
And this is why I have set my mind that no matter how well I become; no matter what happens; I will work and toil; I will party and be merry; I will eat and replenish; I will rest and recover; and I will do all of those enjoying each and every aspect along the way.
It's the beauty of life. It does not bore you with one specific thing. It makes you see all of its aspects. It is up to you to live life as it is. Enjoy life as it should be and not indulge in one aspect of it.
I live life to the fullest! I hope you also do the same.
Enjoy the ride! :)
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