More About Freedom

 "It is important to remember that it is tiring, and trying, being free: and in times of exhaustion affection for freedom has always waned, whatever lip-service might be paid to it.

"The conclusion I draw from the history of slavery is that freedom is not just a matter of rights, to be enshrined in law.  The right to express yourself still leaves you with the need to decide what to say, to find someone to listen, and to make your words sound beautiful; these are skills which need to be acquired.  All that the law says to you is that you can play your guitar, if you can get hold of one.  So declarations of human rights provide only a few of the ingredients out of which freedom is made."

--from An intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin 

It's Pointless. Hurray!

What is the purpose of life?  Big question, no easy answer.  Maybe it's a pointless question to ask.  We are alive, and to get the most out of our life we can treat it like our (usually) imperfect bodies: we can dress it up the best we can so we feel good in it.  Kind of a What Not to Wear solution to living.

Maybe life doesn't have a point, or if it has a point, maybe in the grand scheme of things it may be pointless to try and understand life's point. If that's the case, why worry.  Stressing over our lack of understanding seems pointless too.  So what do we do with our pointless life?

We live it.  What choice do we have?  I guess if having a pointless life gets you down you can opt out.  Or you can look at it differently and see that life's very pointlessness is actually pretty freeing. You don't really have to do or be or have anything. What's the point?  You can, instead, do or be or have everything that's in your power to do, be, or have, no holds barred.  And YOU get to choose what you want to focus on.  You get to create your own reason for living, define your own true north, make your life be about whatever gives you joy.

Get to YOUR point.  After all, you are HERE. You might as well enjoy it.