Live and Survive

Survival is a matter of thermodynamics. If you have more energy coming in than out, you get to live. If your body is a stove, as Thoreau explains, your only job is to keep it burning. Give it wood and protect it from the weather, the rest is bonus.

Once we can take care of our basic needs, we are free to do anything. Or at least, the things that matter most: bonding, learning, and creating. 

We are lucky to live in a world where we can access these three things with the push of a button, independently of where we are born or how we have been raised. It’s incredibly empowering. Heck, it wasn’t even possible 20 years ago.

And yet we feel miserable. Our desires create endless plans and frustrations. We waste time looking inwards and backwards for problems while solutions are already in front of our very eyes.

Life is simple, why are we forced to make it so complicated? I’ve always felt compelled to do more, to be more. Is it just in our nature? Or is it part of our culture? Is it right or wrong? I have no answers. I only know I need more wood to burn.