the question: should you take full advantage of your talents, as much as possible? recognize them, and use them to the fullest? even if you can't earn much from them (da Vinci himself didn't earn much money from his varied talents, including invention, architecture, medicine), you take the time and efforts with the talents?
or is it to help your fellow man, people, Earth as much as possible? to sacrifice yourself to help the greater good more, help people, teach, volunteer, help save the Earth?
or is it to enjoy yourself as much as possible, hedonistic, maybe, but enjoy, travel, pleasurable comforts, as much leisure time as possible, with as many loved ones as possible, the finer things: food, sex, music, etc?
or to live above humanity, spiritual, supra man (Heller, Yossarian, Catch 22), try to divine yourself towards your higher power, sacrifice yourself for that?
super deep stuff i know, but feel it should be out there, for myself at least.
A little bit of everything accept for the higher power..I'm an atheist. I'm all for someone going 100% on any of the 'bullets' you've mentioned here...and there is no right answer...as you know. We struggle with balancing all this stuff daily. I agree with helping fellow man, but I disagree with people who say I"m my brother's keeper". Helping people out, teaching,volunteering are all great...but i do have a problem with the word SACRIFICE...if not anything more than just the word itself...SACRIFICE is a big commitment.
ReplyDeletefunny you wrote this, as lately i have a problem with people saying that soldiers overseas are dying for us. i appreciate their defense of our nation very much, but as i've written before, much of it is to expand the American empire, control resources (Iraq), increase our sphere of influence.
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