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« Previous EntriesHow To Enjoy Your Life More Part 6: Your Deathbed Review
Monday, August 11th, 2008As the morphine drips slowly through the tubes and the blurry, smiling faces of family, friends, and old compatriots smile lovingly upon you, there will come a moment in which it all becomes vividly, unquestionably and inescapably clear: You were in the driver’s seat all along. The choices you made determined your path, the opportunities [...]
How To Enjoy Your Life More: Part 5 – Reaching Nirvana
Monday, August 11th, 2008Nirvana’s a term that’s been flippantly tossed around, so its true meaning has muddled over time. It’s not a location. It’s not a band. It’s a state of mind. Nirvana is the Buddhist term for the quiet state of peace and pure pleasure that can only be found in one’s own private, innermost theater of [...]
How To Enjoy Your Life More: Part 4 – 11 Questions To Measure Your Happiness
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Normally, my existential views would automatically lead me to say “Success is anything you want it to be. It’s up to you to give your life meaning.” And that’s still true. But since we’re all flesh-and-blood biological machine human beings who cannot rise above our own humanity (not that we’d WANT to, but still) there [...]
How To Enjoy Your Life More: Part 3
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Have you come to believe that pleasure and joy are for small children and simpletons? Have you ever met anyone who thought so? I used carry the opinion that any activity which primarily tapped into the human instinctual “reptilian brain”, or sometimes even the “emotional brain”, was a complete and utter waste of time. I [...]
How To Enjoy Your Life More: Part 2
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008History is full of debauched slobs who drank, drugged, and bumbled their way through life, sometimes to tragic ends. Are these to be taken as examples of the “good life”? Hardly. As always, the pendulum swings, and the excessive, unrestrained indulgences of our forebears simply represent the dangers of unbridled hedonism. A touch of restraint [...]
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