133 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 10 May \ on: What if... we already live in Utopia? culture
Years ago I had a similar semi-related epiphany. I used to be an IT consultant and one of my close customers was estate planning lawyer. His clients were VHNW (very high net worth) individuals. As a result of that, I got to meet a few billionaires in my time there.
It was at one of those times, that I had an epiphany. The man in front of me had an old Blackberry phone (same model as mine), we were both drinking a can of soda of some type, I noticed his shoes were slightly older and scuffed.
Of course none of this was some intellectual shock to me...I mean I didn't have some fantasy that rich people had solid gold phones and drank nectar from the gods...it was instead an emotional realization that "we only live in the moment". An at that moment, as two human beings, we were having identical experiences. That is...both sitting there with our blackberry phones, drinking a soda, with slightly uncomfortable shoes on.
Sure, his bank account had several more zeros at that end then mine, but in the present moment that was actually immaterial. Money is a semi-illusion as we live in a tiny pinpoint of time known as the "present".
i was talking to my middle son this morning about something semi-related to this.He was complaining because he is struggling at school as per! Not with his education but with communicating in an acceptable manner.
We are a very neurodivergent family and therefore our brains work in weird and wonderful ways.
He was saying that he 'can't' communicate with others. Ha, well, I corrected him as he is more than capable of communicating and I went on to explain what he can do to help and how actually having a brain like his, is actually a super-power!
Oops... I digressed!
Part of my explanation was explaining that people - no matter if they have no money and are homeless on the street, or billionaires who appear to have everything are any different from each other. We are all connected and no matter the cup that we drink from, we are able to talk to each other on the same level. Money and things are immaterial. What is actually important is how you connect with someone in the moment. We are all the same and yet all so very different!
Life is an illusion, and we play it whether we are aware of that or not!
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