The Wheel of Desire
Upon retiring, I immediately went to work in a new job. That job went into a slow period and I got another job. In my last post I gave a lot of reasons for doing so, all perfectly valid. There is, however, a problem.
I fill my life with lots of activities, work, caregiving, the daily household tasks, maintaining a healthy marriage, several hobbies, movies, raving about the silliness of politics, and so on. The problem is that there is still time in my life to just sit. That leads to what Ezra Bayda calls “The Anxious Quiver of Being”. He is talking about the fundamental issue of life: “What am I doing here?”.
We fill our lives with myriad things to avoid dealing with this question. Addictions are …
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