Posted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 3, 2016 | Contentment, Meaning, Notes, Search, Values | 2 |
This is the third in this little trilogy of posts addressing meaning in our lives. One catalyst for these was Richad Dawkins’ book, “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins makes the argument that the replicating gene...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Aug 23, 2016 | Contentment, Happiness, Meaning, Notes, Search, Values | 4 |
There are a couple of things feeding my thinking here. First was a recent discussion with a friend. I’d read a piece listing the most popular iOS and Android apps downloaded last June or July. Among the top 20, virtually...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Aug 22, 2016 | Contentment, Happiness, Meaning, Notes, Search | 1 |
…and doing what you do the rest of the day, then going to bed and doing it all over. I wonder now if our frustration (that of some of us anyway, including me) doesn’t come from trying to make more of it than that? It...
Read MoreWhere I cannot, you have gone. You’ll not come smiling back at dawn, However long I linger here. But night will pass, and I will see The sun and morning on the trees And know, though gone, you are yet near. Now my own path...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 30, 2016 | Contentment, Happiness, Notes, Search, Time | 1 |
It’s an insightful way to consider the actions and decisions you take today. We like to think we can direct our futures, and to an extent, that’s true. But any guarantee is a myth. Thinking you can control the...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 24, 2016 | Notes, Other people, Search | 3 |
…may well be isolation and solitude. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t seek them, but in the process, a couple of things may happen: You may find you need others less and less, maybe losing tolerance for the...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 19, 2016 | Belief, Contentment, Death, Mortality, Notes, Search | 8 |
…that is, a death you see coming. You’re going over, or going on…or just going. Time and geography and people coalesce. Whoever else is present, they are not participating. There is only you. It reminded me...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 7, 2016 | Contentment, Death, Happiness, Notes, Search, Time | 0 |
…or very like it in one respect, anyway. It has to do with how we use the time we have, not the time we want. With money, there are two ways to be rich, by having more or by wanting less. Truly happy people are the latter,...
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