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Today I will speak about iddleness and boredom.
Since XVII century, Pascal used to say that human beings need
to enjoy themselves, to have fun
and he used to call fun, everything they did.
The work inclusive, sports, talkings, readings,
everything that they did at that time and
today we had to include some others too.
He used to say that the occupations, actions of human beings
are made to avoid the iddleness.
in a time where the life stands still,
generates a deep anguish and a boredom,
this boredom in fact is a kind of depression
sadness, senseless. It seems this remind us
the return of our thoughts to the idea that life has no sense at all.
Basically, we do things to forget that we are mortals.
We don`t know where we come from, or where we are going to
This makes us feel sad.
Especially when we are iddle and bored,
So, these thoughts come up and make us sad.
When I say that life has no sense that seems senseless to us,
I am not saying that it is true.
People have to be humble and understand that
our problem is not to know the existence obout other
forces perhaps bigger than the human beings.
Some times people think that if you cant imagine
the sense of life is because there is no God.
Thus human beings are the supreme masterpiece of the mankind creation.
I think this thought is a mistake and snobish.
I am not saying that God exists or not.
What I am saying is that what exists is a lack of humbleness
to know that we have a computer mind that it is insuficient itself to
answer to these questions
and that insuficiency can`t be mistaken
with the senselessness of things.
We have a mind able to ask questions
but it is not able to answer those questions.
it doesn`t mean there is no answer at all.
Therefore the human being is the supreme being of the universe.
This is an exagerated, anticipated vision
Opportunely , the time of our death we will know
what will happen.
Deep inside we don`t know and by that doesn`t mean
that doesn`t exist.
It means only that we don`t know.
In fact this iddleness
reduces when the individual keeps occupied
with things that can answer why
Why am I doing this?
What is the reason why?
Where is this task going to take me?
What is the income ? Reward that I will get?
Few people can`t get an occupation in a dilettante way.
They can`t make things simply because it is nice.
I mean, they can`t sunbathe because it is nice or
because it is warm and feels good.
Most people when they sunbathe think that
I am going to sunbathe because it is good
for the synthesis of vitamin.
it is good for a healtier appearance.
Because my appearance will be more enthusiastic, happier.
Should always be a reason why.
in fact few people make things because they like it
for pleasure. People, in fact can`t retire
can`t be tranquil on holiday unless they drink a lot,
using a lot of alcohol,
using sometimes others kinds of drugs too.
because it is too difficult to stay in peace, in harmony
without bad thoughts and without depression
without anguish therefore busy.
Again few people can live without tasks
that correspond to some reason.
Most people can`t just enjoy, have fun
and don`t have the dogs capacity to take a nap
because there is nothing to do.
The capacity of stop thinking,
is also an effort of some thinkers,
philosophers and some people from the oriental world,
transcendental meditation, until today most doctors
suggest like a good thing for getting calm and
better quality of life for those who have an accentuated stress problem.
The idea is always to plan a strategy to stop the thoughts.
For some minutes or time along the day, the individual
close the eyes and don`t think about anything else.
and succeed not thinking about anything
The result is relaxation
an energization
and from oriental point of view
several others benefits.
in fact we ocidental people have less competency
to make this.
Our better living is when we can entertain ourselves.
Probaly the entertainment that relaxes us are those,
with less responsability,
less stress,
where we don`t have the anxiety of the responsability.
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