Saturday, June 3, 2023

How much life is in your life?

 I WANT MY LIFE TO BE EXTREMELY FILLED... WITH LIFE. This is the sentence I read from a JKBC reader.

Is it possible? You have to take into account your budget, time off from paid work and from working at home (e.g. having children means working non-stop, for 3 full-time jobs). There is also the question of what you are interested in and what makes you flow well.

Because let's face it, many people are simply not interested in anything. More precisely, nothing special. FAME MMA, Netflix, rap, trips to an all-inclusive resort to sit on your ass on a beach under palm trees - these are not hobbies.

I often like to invent various neologisms and call things already named with new terms. The word "iteration" means a sequence executed by a computer program or algorithm.

I use the word iteration for chores that you have to do but don't really feel like doing, or that are tedious, boring, or even very goofy (e.g. shopping in cramped and dingy warehouses, called stores).

So you get up at an hour you don't want to get up. You get ready, you wash yourself, you make sandwiches or rolls, you drink coffee. Then you drive to work (often over an hour each way). You work and very rarely this work is your passion. Then you go home (again an hour). You go to a goods depot, buy food and other products. And / or do official business, go to the post office, to the hairdresser and so on. At home, cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing, laundry.

I call these steps "iterations." These are automated and recurring events that you don't really want. Robots equipped with artificial intelligence could do it as well. Anyway, we already have them - a washing machine, a dishwasher, a mixer and a number of others.

However, it would be useful if more of this type of non-constructive but necessary activities were taken over by robots. And in the first place, shopping - the necessary products should be delivered to us by drones. I hope that in 10 years, only a memory will remain after Biedras, Lidl, kerfurs and similar landfills.

I ask myself how much life is there in my life? You can also ask yourself this question: how much life is there in your life? How much time do you spend on what you really like? I look at people and often see how the only joy of such a person during the day is to drink a few beers every evening.

The mechanized economy has forced us into ruthless cogs that are slowly, all the time, grinding us into their ruthless cogs. But in the supposedly good old days, which weren't really good at all, things weren't any better. There was no mechanization of agriculture or household appliances, so there was even more daily work.

The system is designed to trap you and then take most of your time, energy and resources. The classic way of life - family and career - is a perfect example of this. Those who have avoided many of life's pitfalls may have it a bit better than others. But in the overwhelming majority of cases, we are all wandering around the architect's perfectly constructed labyrinth.

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