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My life's work is surviving. Everything I do and have done has been to keep myself alive to some degree or another. Everything else is just a bunch of distracti
by hirvi74 4y ago
My life's work is surviving. Everything I do and have done has been to keep myself alive to some degree or another. Everything else is just a bunch of distractions and abstractions that boil down to same thing at the end of the day.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoLove this answer. Sometimes I feel like "merely" surviving is looked down upon, but the art of survival is the only lasting thing we can hand down the generations. The environment changes so rapidly (especially in the Anthropocene) that usually the best we can do is figure out how to survive right now. Anything else is superfluous if we can't do that.
- hirvi74 4y agoAs my favorite philosopher, Alan Watts, once said when asked, "What is the meaning of life?" > “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
- abnercoimbre 4y agoI really like this view and have been adopting it often.