The Treadmill

 if life is represented by a treadmill, we can say that's an apt metaphor but the speed on which a treadmill moves is never taken into account. Once upon a time, getting up in the morning and doing a few chores and making sure your future is somewhat secure from disasters, was a relatively simple life. Now, we need the speed of a car, train, or plane to get to all the essential elements of our lives, our survival. Time consciousness has been extended to practically include every moment of the day plus the next one. Planning ahead, all the time. It's like taking a rat on a wheel and speeding up the wheel. It's not even like the rat can just hop off, and say, "fuck that". Early experiments on dogs, remembering Pavlov, relegates much of who we humans are, can be boiled down to rigid routines and obedience to conformity no matter how ridiculous it is.

Here i come to save the day, mighty mouse is on the way.

It's interesting the things that pop into a head. Like a cartoon seems silly, doesn't it? Most young people wouldn't have any idea what I'm talking about but that's where I, and my generation, has an advantage. Probably some would call it "wisdom" but i just call it, fixation.

A mighty mouse might sound ridiculous, but marvel has ant man, maybe it's psychologically healthier to have a human perform supernatural acts but we are raised on the premise that animals can be human, or, at least invoke emotions or loyalty or friendship, whereas nowadays everyone forgets we humans are predatory animals, survive off of whatever resources are provided by mother nature, and do not care about others of our species outside of our territory. 

That's certainly part of the problem in solving many of our issues about living, as a nation or as individuals. We have natural built-in issues, call them fears, adherence to routine, skepticism of the truth, belief in superstitions, wanting others to believe in our superstitions, obedience to ill-defined authority, just to mention a few. Of course, there's also the fact (truth) our bodies fall prey to aging or disease and also, at the most basic, the weather nor the earth is on the same page in our grand plans to implement "perfection".

If money and wealth or even middle class living seems as if it insulates some from the above-named problems, i think i can say from experience that none of those three things prevents nor guarantees freedom from becoming irrelevant at some point.

Yes, that's what living is all about, trying to accumulate family, friends, and debt to keep the wolves at bay. sometimes the wolves are real but why create problems for yourself by trying to hang on to man-made or self-delusions. Life's hard enough as it is.

Enjoy the good, forsake what's left or unlovable.