Philosophy, finance, and freedom.

It was a slow morning today. I woke up a few times in the night to thunder, lightening, and rain hammering Splendid’s decks.

I love the squally weather, I always have. In the height of the worst squalls and lightening I stand on the foredeck and let the cold rain sting my bare skin, it makes me feel alive. People say I’m “crazy” for swimming in the lightening and rain but I just Love it!

Carla is in the states for a week. I always do my deepest thinking and creativity when I am alone, and once again I’ve put my life under a microscope. I must say I’m truly happy, although most likely the financially poorest person you know over the age of 20. It’s ironic that I was a “financial advisor” at one point in my life?

I’ve recently read on Facebook that a number of my friends are struggling with finding work, finance, and happiness. It was this I found myself thinking of as the rain stung my skin this morning and the wind pulled at my hair. Thank God I don’t have to go to an office!

I know what it is to struggle with money and happiness and although I occasionally want more to finish Splendid and travel, I’d never let it interfere with the joy and freedom I hold in my heart.

However that transition was a difficult one. Only my closest friends know the deep, deep, deep despair that consumed me in my former life and nearly ended it.

What would you say if I told you the matrix has ahold of you? You’d say I was a nut right,  “Alex doesn’t live in “reality”, perhaps?

But it is just that, the system has you. The system makes you pay (time/work) on your home, your income, the food you consume, and the water you drink.

In my very humble opinion these are human rights that are granted to us by nature (God if you prefer). Shelter, food, and water are not things to be taxed by anyone, and when a society insists on it perhaps its time to tear it down and start over?

More importantly the system shapes our values, our sense of right & wrong, and demands most of our freedom (time). What kind of world is it that we live in when our society dictates what time we get up, when we eat or make love, and when we are able to rest?

At what point do we say “NOT ONE MORE DAY”? The truth is most of us (Americans) still have a choice although perhaps a difficult one. 

Philosophy is the key, however one can not philosophize without time. You must make the time. Occupying the little free time many of you have with devices and television is the biggest mistake. We all need time to think about our lives so we can develop a plan to better them.

Building your own life-philosophy is paramount to success. And when I say success it has nothing to do with how much you make an hour, have in the bank, or how shiny your car is.

I know it sounds corny but Love is the only measurement of success, and the goal that should be at the end of everything we do.

I truly hope all my friends find what they are looking for.

Anyway, these are my rambling thoughts this grey and stormy day.

Peace.

Alex

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