Albert Herdianto Widjojo
An appointment took me to the city center, in an old area that is one of the arts center areas. In that area, there is an art institute, theater, cinema, park and culinary center where many artists gather there.
Long enough not to visit the area, apparently along the road from the area the sidewalk repair is being done so that the dust is a quite busy flying. I have an appointment at a cafe, which even though it is tightly closed, dust can slip in when the door is opened, likewise, every time a pair of shoes or more stepped on the floor.
The repair work has reached the stage of filling the gap between the square stone slabs. You can see in the picture some workers are filling the gap with sand.
For your information, I chose this black-and-white image for this post to avoid images that could trigger my mind to spin too deep, the lately might be too intense. Moreover, Doc, who has always been my loyal friend in many discussions, today seems to feel too tired to think as he said in one of the threads of a post where we discussed. So, you don’t have to be burdened by this article, for this writing is just something very light.
But, there is a small thing that makes me curious about the picture. Seeing the workers, I wonder a little, there were people who were born and died rich, some were born rich but died very poor. Conversely, there are also people who were born and died in poverty, and also people who were born in poverty but died rich. In your opinion, who or what determines all that?
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Very interesting and thought-provoking post once again! I like to believe that we can change our situation and it’s not all entirely destined.
That’s a good perspective, Ellie. Thinking that everything is predestined makes us immobile, but hoping too much of our efforts to change the situation will also cause a lot of disappointment and frustration.
Yeah, it seems that it’s all a mix of effort, potential, environment and a bit of luck. It’s easier to lose what you have, than to overcome a limiting background, unfortunately.
Well, it seems that way. Also, it’s easier to spend than to collect, easier to dispose of than to find.
And it’s easier to pull someone down than to help someone climb up…
It is true! I’ve experienced it while climbing mountains.
I am neither rich nor poor. I have so much to live on, I can afford to travel … My opinion is that wealth does nothing good.
Yeah, me too…
Many people will disagree with you, but I totally agree. After all, the more we have, the more we have to worry about, the more we have, the more strings that bind our souls.
You took me to what the priest says while applying ash on our foreheads on Ash Wednesday. . “Dust thou art, to dust returnest”
The external factors play a huge role in how one’s life turns out to be over which we have no control.
Ash Wednesday still a few months away, right?
You’re right about the uncontrollable “external” factor, so why do people always say, “your destiny lies in your hands,” or “Life is a choice”?
It is not always that external factors play their role and that is when what people say makes sense.
So, external and internal influences always apply, right? Also like joy and sorrow, healthy and sick, etc.
Sometimes bad times make some live longer. My sister and her husband always had issues with each other. She is nearing her nineties and her husband died plus ninety recently. Thriving on muck as it were.
That is life.
Many people have that kind of relationship, whether they keep trying to survive or not. They are like keeping hell at home and in the mind.
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Dinner with my wife, a good nights sleep and I am back!
It is interesting to, that you picked dust. The reality of dust around us. As always you delight and today my deep thoughts focus on the dust itself. Once part of something now a small independent reality.
I am glad you have felt light again, Doc.
It’s actually quite interesting to talk about dust but I don’t want to discuss anything too deep in this post, so I just say something else that’s mild. Btw, I feel curious about your last statement.
Now a small independent reality?
The dust can never recreate the whole. And the whole will always miss the dust. But they actually coexist as well.
I think you should start writing philosophical themes here as well. Who knows, there will be enlightened dust.
it is a thought I have considered in the past my friend.
So, it’s not considered anymore?
I have never come to a full conclusion. You are helping me think about it right now.
Well, who knows, I will read one of them soon.
I agree with Ileana Calotescu ……….
Thanks for the comment, my friend.
Basically, I agree with the statement, although it is not directly related to the question.?
I don’t know who decides this … I think it’s fate … I was not born poor or rich … golden mean and also rich I will not die … I have a rich soul and health … this is my greatest wealth, dear Albert
I strongly agree that our wealth, especially you, is soul, mental and physical health, dear friend.
And you can trust me that is enough for me, dear Albert … I have the right money so I can have a good idea and where to travel a little
Enough money for healthy food and a little fun is the right composition for me too, dear friend.
Well then we have it all, dear Albert
Yep! That is true, dear friend.
So many things affect how our lives will turn out. Some have chances to make their lives better, unfortunately many do not.
I often think, are the famous motivators bragging? That includes me! There are people who succeed – in a certain sense – and there are also people who fail despite listening to the same motivator lecture or read the same book, have the same belief, perform similar actions, etc. but the results are never the same.
Soul wealth is more valuable than any material wealth! I’m just saying!
See! Your wisdom is the great potential that grows higher more and closer to the sky.
No matter how rich or poor we are, we all eventually die.
Yes, that is the certainty of destiny, the end of the book. That is true for those who have religion (as a decree of God – either true believers or modest believers) or who are not religious. But, what determines all that?