Saturday, December 29, 2007

Productivity

Everyone is talking about how to be more productive, how to get things done. But my question is - why should you? Why should you care at all?

Possibility that your life will end tomorrow is not so convincing (even thou it happens to thousands of people every day), but the fact that you will die someday is something that you should remember of.

I'm not talking here about the meaning of life. Life has no meaning itself. It's your job to find it. But that's not the point here. Whatever you think the meaning is, you're still spending most of your time concentrating on things that are not related to it. You may say it's a must. You may say that man have to work to get money for the food and so on. But that's a bullshit. First of all, you're getting much more money than you need for food and just living. Second thing is that you don't have any musts at all.

So let's take it by example:
  • your point of life is love: to say that, you should live with that person for more than 2 years. Now take a look at yourself and think how things you do everyday relate to it
  • going to heaven: LOL*
  • create something new; well, it will be created anyway, besides, they say that human race survival probability is about 50%
  • just be happy: we can be happy, but not more than 50% of our time, because people simple get bored to easily
So even if you have some meaning of life, then still most of your life is not about it.

Forget about who you were in the past, forget about who you hope to be in the future. You are in a given life situation. Do just what you want to do.

Let's go straight to my point: Don not care.

If you care, you will suffer. It wil give you nothing more than pain.

But... TRY. Try to live your life in the way you want. Try to get what you want from your life. But, do not care about succeeding. Because after 500 years, no one will care anyway.

So just try.

*not to be such an ignorant; if you really want this, you would rather die than commit a single tiny sin. And you know that's not how things work

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