When we strip you down to the most basic elements of what you’re all about, what do we have?
I never really strayed too far from my basic elements, so it should be easy for me to go back.
I am just me – a child playing in the dust. Which is mud, which is clay. Quiet and self-contained. Going out on adventures every now and then. Free. Unpretentious.
I just realised something.
I was thinking: What were my needs? Very little. None almost. What are my wants? None (although I can get some if necessary). So, is that why I am free? Why I feel so free?
And then I remembered the sensation of not understanding what the life is all about and why there is this atmosphere of anxiety. Especially in the Western world. I know now why. People in what we call the West more than people in other places convinced themselves, that they have needs – lots of them.
And then I remembered what I read yesterday on Steven Fry’s website: “Eat shit, a hundred billion flies can’t be wrong”
Which is not to say, that it is bad to have wants! On the contrary, it is great! It’s fun! Wants are the engine of the progress. But wants are not needs. One can drop them any time. You need nothing. So, be free 🙂