Maybe someone has thrown you a lifeline, just the help you needed in a time when you felt you could be going under. Or maybe you have felt pulled under by someone who expected you to save them when it wasn’t in your power. This saving and being saved is a complicated thing. It helps to remember that a life preserver is something you throw from the boat while you, yourself, remain aboard.
What has been you best experience of saving or being saved? What has been your worst?
“If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.”
― Oscar Wilde
What are you happier without?
The butterfly’s desire is for the sweetness of the flower. The flower’s desire is for the butterfly to carry is pollen away to the next flower. And our desire is for the beauty of butterfly and flower, which is created without the least care for what we want.
How do you provide joy for others simply by doing what brings you delight?
“But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart’s desire, their dream…. But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.”
― Neil Gaiman
What has been a price you paid for getting what you wanted?
The goal of advertising, what stokes the fires of capitalism, is for us to want more and more, to consume our way toward happiness. Except, of course, that the philosophy of “more and more” is never satisfied, so we are never supposed to actually be happy and content.
How do you find yourself being caught in the pull of “more and more”?
