Why am I alive? Or what do I think about it.
Different people will have a different answer to this.
I've read quite a bit about many religions... I've read quite a bit about the creation of the Universe, the big bang, galaxies, evolution, etc...
And I've come to my own conclusion.
My conclusion is... I'm not really bothered, as in, I don't think too much about it.
Based on current statistics, I should die around 85-90 years old and for me, that's all I am going to bother about.
So for me, I just want to be happy and enjoy my 80+ years in my own way.
I just wanna chill and relax. It's not hard for me to relax and enjoy myself.
I don't do anything bad, I don't do anything particularly good unless I feel like it or it falls into my framework.
For me, I feel that life is so simple.
Just take care of myself and my family. There is nothing to want. Time for myself and time for my family is enough. Enough money for food, insurance, accommodation, clothing, utilities, just the simple things.
It's not having things that make me happy.
It's I'm happy with the things I have and I'm happy enough. I don't really go and strive for the NEXT thing that I think may make me happier.
At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.
Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have — ENOUGH.”
Based on this anecdote, Kurt Vonnegut wrote this obituary/poem for The New Yorker in May of 2005 .
True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Enough — What an eloquent word.
Enough — What a potent word.
Enough — An underused word, maybe.
https://medium.com/@narendragoidani/but-i-have-something-he-will-never-have-enough-8036d03d089b
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