Hello to all,
I've just joined after reading the first two chapters of "Strawman Story", I'm blown away and need to find like minded folk as I have no idea how to live without money / mammon (having done it all my life), I just don't know what the next step must be but I know I must take that step!
My replies may be slow as I only access internet at a local pub a few times a week as I don't have it at home.
Hope to hear from someone soon,
With love,
Joe
Thank you for your message Joe.
The days of me telling anyone what to do are long over. I can only speak for me and if anyone can find something within that they can use then perhaps it was worthwhile? I try my best to never use words based in ambiguity. Words like hope suggest that something or someone will come to save me or save the collective us and I think we all are the ones to come to our own rescue. It has always been difficult to know the right road to travel when there is a fork at every mile. Life is a choice, I'm not sure how I got to where I am today as I've gone down so many wrong turns but here I am for better or worse?
Regrets ... there are lots of them, everyone has them on various levels. Some of us are consumed by them, and some of us have the ability to let them go. The quote of "life can be better understood by looking backwards, but it must be lived by looking forward" or sumthin to that affect holds true in this circumstance. If I want to entertain what I'd be thinking in my last moments, I would "think" that I'll look back in my life and see many things I could have done differently, I might even have regrets about them? So what? I'll not be around to commiserate about them anymore so perhaps I'll have the wherewithall to look forward to my next chance to live in alignment with Nature ... or not?
No one has all the answers and no one actually knows the exact way to go, at least no one in the flesh? Doing one's best to live life in a way that does the least amount of harm to our surroundings, to others, nature and ourselves might be a good way to be? We can do that right now and I think there wouldn't be much in the way of regrets doing so? Finding like minders is always comforting but no one can live our life for us, we come in alone and leave that way, no one gets outta here alive! I live an isolated life in the countryside, in some ways it's more of an existence than an actual dynamic life, but it is what it is and I've accepted that to a more or lesser degree. I sometimes have thoughts or inclinations of something different but like you my peak was years ago and things continue to get smaller as time ticks on. I still do find comforts and am grateful for everything in life and perhaps that's good enough?
peace,
kelly