inspired by Guy Duperreault’s Substack, 22 Dec 2022
Journal Entry
Journal entry inspired by Guy Duperreault’s Substack, 22 Dec 2022:
Tuesday 14 March 2023 (book 20; pg 3)
What a brave thing to do! That is to “unencumber” one’s self of one’s stuff. It has crossed my mind a time or two in my life that I should unencumber myself. We encumber ourselves with things that we think we need to help us move from one point in life to another. They are crutches, really. Until we find out that life its self is the object of the journey, things will always intrude into our consciousness as things needed and wanted. Our acquisitions and our experiences in acquiring begin at an early age to define who we are. In some respect these things give meaning to a life without meaning, or without a direction. Direction and meaning? We hear those two a lot being bandied about as we mature into adulthood; yet, we can live all our life and find neither.
It is a blessing to not have everything you want, but to have all that you need. The human instinct is to have everything that one wants, thinking that is what one needs.
I have got the most pleasant of goose bumps on my skin from the joy I feel for your sharing your thought and feelings. Lovely. Muchas gracias, as we say here in Mexico.