Being is Not a Thing
We have become used to thinking in terms of the market – where every thing can be traded.
I remember going to a job fair in Silicon Valley – and marveling why no one else was marveling. There were thousands of highly-paid professionals streaming in from their expensive cars in the huge parking lots – each with resumes in their hand to present to the hundreds companies manning the booths on the inside.
They were for sale on the jobs market – just as slaves once were. Their value was determined by the value of their skills – and they could see nothing wrong with that.
I could. I had made the mistake (beginning in High School) of selling myself on the market, and I had ended up with nothing. Exactly what the Old Testament prophets had warned us of.
In my old age, like many, I suffered from a variety of weird ailments. But I made the right decision: to just get out and live in a low-pressure environment. Actually, I didn’t make this decision, I was not in shape to decide much of anything. But more or less by accident I ended up in a good place, and was able to adapt to it.
This adaption is not something most can do. It means making a life for yourself, something you had not been able to do in all of your previous life.
But if you cannot have your own life, you might as well be dead. You will be even worse than dead, in fact. You will be in great pain – but not consciously aware of it. And your body (and your mind) will suffer because of it.
This will be the subject of another posting – unconscious pain. Look for it soon.
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