The Good Life

I think it is human nature to always want a bit more. It's probably what has helped us evolve into the top predator on this earth, but what is human nature is not always something to be encouraged.

I don't want to be the top predator. Eating my neighbor is not high on my list.

Neither is being the richest, or the tallest, or smallest, or fattest, or skinniest, not even the smartest, or nicest. I can leave the extremes to those who mostly have no choice. They need all the help they can get. All those "ests" often come at a high price the rest of us would be shocked to learn about.

What I yearn for is a simple life where I can take care of myself, pay the bills, buy food, find something useful to do and enjoy the company of like minds.

It hasn't always been this way. I came to this place via many years of trying out other ways. They simply don't suit me. I have no problem with others wanting more, especially the young, as long as it is tempered with reason and compassion. I don't have any great plans for improving the world, most of the ones I have seen, or read about don't really work all that well anyway.

Living the good life seems to require a lot of improv. Start by defining it and continue on to the best of ones ability and there are still bound to be huge errors along the way. Mainly because we all seem to define it differently and by the time anyone has it figured out they are probably too old, or too close to the end to convince the rest of us they are right.

That's the problem with being top predator. Snap decisions don't leave many alternatives.