Dear AB
QUESTION:
I am beginning to realize how my focus is very inward
directed. I worry over wrinkles and my appearance like you wouldn't believe. On
the other hand, at some level I realize those things can't possibly matter.
Only being good can really matter. It's hard for me not get to feeling very down
because of where society has gotten itself. So material focused.
How do you personally not get down in the dumps about that? What do
you tell yourself about it?
I get closer each day to wanting to leave earning excess
money behind and just living a simpler life. One without a lot of extras. But I
can almost feel societies scorn already.
ANSWER:
Here are some of the things I tell myself when those same
thoughts invade my own sense of wellbeing.
I
am my age and I’m good enough.
Sometimes
I remember the phrase of the “Desiderata”: “You are a child of the Universe no
less than the stars and the trees. You have a right to be here.”
I can't help everybody but I can try to help
somebody.
I can't do everything but I can do something.
I'm lucky to have any money in a world where people
are losing everything.
There
is always a task at hand to save my sanity.
And
if nobody is around and I feel lonely I can always go out and say something
pleasant to someone at the grocery store, the library or the post office. A. B.
Curtiss
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