July 27, 2023 – B

Today is the first day
of my tenth year of sobriety. 
That doesn't mean
that I was a stumbling drunk
nine years ago,
but I was good 
for a half bottle of wine a day
(And sometimes, a whole bottle),
when my acupuncturist said,
"Jim, alcohol isn't doing anything for your knees."

So, I quit alcohol on the spot.
He said the same thing about sugar,
due to it's inflammatory impact,
and I did the same thing with sugar,
though it is easier to "fall off the wagon"
with sugar because it is everywhere
(Try ordering breakfast without sugar--
breakfast IS sugar!).

And that leads me to this:
Everything is overrated.
money heads the list.
Money is overrated.
And sex.
Drugs and alcohol.
The list is long, but.
Silence is not on the list,
nor is emptiness and stillness.

The three most important things
do not make the list of important things,
and will never, ever--
you can check me out on this--
be overrated.

And what all this comes down to is this:
Live like everything matters,
with no attachment whatsoever to the outcome.

Live like everything means everything in the world,
with no attachment to anything.

Meaning is our own concoction. 
If something is meaningful,
it means something/everything to us.
If it doesn't mean anything to us,
it is meaningless,
or may as well be,
for all that it is doing for us.

And here is the funny-as-in-not-funny-at-all thing:
Most of the stuff we do,
most of the things we spend time with,
most of the things we spend time doing,
mean absolutely nothing to us.

We devote our life to things that are meaningless
to us.

Why???

Get to the bottom of that,
and you are onto something.

And, start giving your time and attention
to the things that are meaningful for you.

With no attachment to them whatsoever.

You will transform your world.

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