What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?

But the knowledge of existence and the purpose for living.

Many of us haven’t gotten it into our heads that we are all transient.  Imagine what will happen in just 100 years!  Everything material that you have acquired and jealously kept with so much passion will either disappear or change hands.  Whoever you are. This means that material things create only momentary satisfaction that disappears after a while. Then you start looking looking for something else, something new, new and new. Until you turn to ashes. 

You know, even if you keep your bills carefully and jealously, when you leave this world, this anecdote might happen.  Namely, when one such person died, he specifically ordered that all cash money be buried with him. As the coffin was very big to fit all that money next to his body, his children said to their crying mother: “Mother, as our dear father leave so much cash, let’s take that money and thus reduce the weight of the coffin and leave him a check in his name instead of money so that he can withdraw that money when he goes to the other world?”  The mother, shocked but also happy that her children have not yet lost their sanity, agreed and that’s how they all came to the money that someone else had created… Soon, they forgot about the father, till their children forgot about them and so on and on..  

The realization that the balance between needs and wants is the biggest “thing” I “found.” That opened the door to another parallel world. The one in which we understand that our fulfillment as human beings means leaving behind not material but spiritual works that can be an inspiration for the next generations to come. Like inventions, ideas, thoughts, and positive deeds done with empathy.  All that, together with one simple but genuine “good day” to your neighbours, co workers, strangers in the road, will contribute to those new generations who will go far into space spreading the energy of goodness they got from us!

It happened to me this morning. While driving, I saw a truck trying to turn, and I simply stopped giving him time to safely turn. When the driver did his turning, he looked at me, and I genuinely smiled. Then he stopped for two seconds and showed me a heart made with his two hands! That’s what will stay in the universe when we depart from this planet!

IT CAN BE DONE!

Now, to make a digression and see if anyone would contribute with only one coffee treat. 😊

Have a genuinely fulfilling day!

Darko Richard Lancelot

November 13, 2024

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