Why are we all in a rush? What’s the hurry? Are we moving quickly so that we can finish this adventure and get to the next adventure?
In the 1980’s there was a popular quote that said, “He who dies with the most toys, wins!’ You could find this saying on coffee mugs, t-shirts, and bumper stickers on all of the toys that the opulence of the 80’s generated. But the saying has all but gone away. The consumerism behind it still lurks in certain circles and our President is a big fan of showing off latent consumerism, but the general public has mostly moved on.
But what has stepped up in it place is efficiency. Doing more and getting more done.
“He how dies with the most adventures, wins?” I mean, we all respect folks who are always on an adventure. And then there is FOMO when we see pictures of other people doing fun stuff and we are not. But is there a limit to how many adventures we can handle? If we are rushing through one project to get to the next so that we can have more a adventurous life, where does the efficiency end and the life begin?
There was a tinge of obsession behind the toys quote, along with a deprecating humor due to the understanding that once you are dead, you can no longer enjoy those toys, but you might as well while you are living. We can translate that same obsession over to accumulating adventures. Are you enjoying the adventures as you are racking them up? They become a number instead of an experience.
The adventures, along with the toys, are something that we are chasing and never fulfilling. There is the doing but there also needs to be the not-doing. The yin and the yang. If you are always seeking then you are never finding.
He who dies with the most peace, wins.
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