Day 269 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Nothing Matters...
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Lesson 269: Nothing Matters...
“Nothing matters. Everything matters. Somewhere between the two is a great place to live your life.”
Today we are to think about one thing we might do if nothing mattered. Alternatively, what would you do if everything mattered?
If nothing mattered, I would sell my home, leave the country and go live somewhere where money wasn’t important. Some peaceful community and live off the land. I would love to have no responsibility and live free in peace. It would be as if I dropped off the face of the Earth and be more connected to nature. Kind of like how our ancestors lived.
I feel like I have too many obligations at home for me to just live as if nothing mattered. I have cats I look after. I work to support myself so I have food to eat and have a roof over my head. I live in a westernised society and with that comes certain responsibilities that we have placed on ourselves really. I work for a large corporation and do the whole 9-5 life.
I don’t know what I would do if everything mattered. I think I would be cautious as to how I project myself into the world. I think if everything mattered, then image would matter. I think I would live a life of care in appearance and how others perceive me, I guess? I’m really not sure how to answer this because I live in the middle of these 2 extremes – I don’t care what people think of me, I’m quite open and honest, I live my life how I want to, I don’t live my life how others want me to and I’m working towards my own goals for the first time in my life.
I think it would be easier to live a life where nothing mattered than if everything mattered. I think there would be so much pressure to live a life if everything mattered. It would be some idealistic lifestyle of perfection which is not sustainable. It’s like living that dream of nice car, nice house, good job and good family. Something that everyone seemed to want to achieve because it mattered in society but doesn’t leave room for mistakes. If nothing mattered, there would be less pressure but then maybe some people would go down the path of complacency, because if there was no point, then why do it? I looked at the question more in the way of, if you had no responsibility, then what would you do? Not sure if that was the way to go, but it seemed right to me. What do you think?