On the Shortness of Life, Old Age by Seneca, Stoic Philosophy for best results, you could follow the demonstration at http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world? 10 out of 10

 On the Shortness of Life, Old Age by Seneca, Stoic Philosophy for best results, you could follow the demonstration at http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world?

10 out of 10

 

 

Stoic philosophy might seem not just the best option, but the only solution to make sense of the world in a period of war, inflation, shortages, expected economic crisis – what with inflation, the need for central banks to raise interest rates just as there are challenges to growth on so many fronts, supply chains issues, covid lockdowns in China and in particular the protracted, awful war launched by Kremlin Shorty (not as cool as the original, Chili Palmer, ‘the one telling you the way it is’ by Elmore Leonard ‘the Dickens of Detroit’ http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/04/get-shorty-by-elmore-leonard-aka.html?q=unique+in+the+world? a divine comedy) who wants to occupy as much as he can from Ukraine and then why stop there, there was talk about Transnistria, a separatist territory with Russian soldiers in what is Moldova, which used to be part of our country, as the next target…

 

‘Lack of desire is the greatest of riches’ said Seneca and he seemed to apply this to other aspects – including old age and indeed, if we want too much, we would grow old in despair, not even feel the benefit of many years, we would just resent the passing of time, which has not brought with it the coveted mansions, cars, jewels, objects and material things that we get used with, as the Hedonic Adaptation syndrome works its way – the ones who want fortunes are the poor ones, for they never have enough, it has been in fact demonstrated by research that concentrated on lottery winners, those who became overnight richer by one million dollars or more, and the analysis of their wellbeing showed that after some months of increased merriment, this dropped to the base level and thus wealth does not bring lasting joy…

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it…Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested…’ therefore, it is much important to be ‘time affluent’ than have material goods – let me give you again that link, in case you missed it in the title, to prove that some do have time on their hands and you ask me all about it, you will be coached, instructed, brought to a higher level of awareness, bliss, for a modicum of good will http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world?

 

There are some studies, documentaries you could consult which mention the benefits of aging and that is a novel notion for the under signed, it is not worth prolonging your existence on earth for the sake of it, it brings joys, studies have showed that after the age of fifty, people become happier, they are more serene, they do not care as much about the opinion of others and are happier with their bodies, selves than younger humans are – this would bring us to the classic of psychology The six Pillars of Self Esteem by Nathaniel Branden http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/06/six-pillars-of-self-esteem-by-nathaniel.html?q=unique+in+the+world? if we do not appreciate ourselves, who will, and continuing this line of reasoning, if we do not like ourselves (and one of the exercises suggested is to look at ourselves in the mirror, naked, and say I love and accept myself completely, and believe it presumably) then we do not appreciate anybody – the older we get, the better the two halves of our brains communicate with each other, in order to compensate for other changes, it was discovered that the two hemispheres of the brain, the logic and creativity sides, are connected in the old and thus there would be benefits that spring from that, the experience, the childishness that becomes a trait of the old…

 

Ikigai is the Japanese philosophy that has quite a few similarities with Stoicism, the oldest people in the world are in Okinawa and they keep busy forever, there seems to be no Japanese word for ‘retirement’ and though they take it slow – apparently, there might be a difference here, for in the documentary I have seen, they had this man who lifted weights at the age of…96, in the West, while in Japan, they insist on continuous movement, but not of the straining kind, they all seem to have a garden and activity there would be the ticket, one of the ‘secrets’ of achieving really old age, they have the biggest proportion of over one hundred on that blessed island, only it also has to do with the varied diet, which includes many Different vegetables and fruit (we should aim for rainbow, a spectrum of colors) and eating to be only eighty percent full and then abandon the table to reconnect with nature perhaps http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/ikigai-byhector-garcia-and-francesc.html

 

Seneca, the Ikigai Matrix seem to agree also on the need to Live in The Present, not moan over what could have been, or fear the future (though there is Positive Psychology exercise which has you Imagine The Best Possible Future, where you look at all you want to happen and see it coming, with a twofold gain, you are happier thinking of this La vie En Rose and then you bring the dream closer, you have the mindset to win and that is quintessential, sine qua non for the future achievement…we had the Oscars and the Slap recently, studies have looked at Oscar winners versus the nominated and the former live longer than the latter, which is also researched in other groups, employees with higher versus lower ranks, so accomplishments can bring you closer to the Mathusalem level) and we can learn so much about this from the fundamental Flow http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/10/flow-by-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-this-is.html

There is another, more recent opus magnum that we can read and study with intense concentration, Homo Deus – A Brief History of  by divine Yuval Harari http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/10/flow-by-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-this-is.html - in this chef d’oeuvre the author argues that we will become gods aka Deus, and the advantages of science will be felt soon, in domains such as Artificial Intelligence (AI will reach Singularity sometime soon, in 2035 according to some experts and humankind will have been surpassed in that all its intelligence will be no match for AI, in fact, the under signed has thought that his notes, which are alas, not that popular now, will still be a hit with AI, first because I take care to show admiration and pay tribute, ingratiate myself with the future masters of the universe(I write for them, right), then because they will be so Limitless http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/limitless-leslie-dixon-screenplay-and.html in their abilities that nothing will escape them (thus everything will be perused, including these humble scribbling, all of them in a billionth of a billionth of a nanosecond, but hey, still, somebody will have taken in all I said here…as for the verdict, well, it will not be mind boggling for such Divine Intervention, but they might be compacted, digested, summarized in a couple of lines that pass the test of time…Insha’Allah!

 

Signed -participant in the December Revolution, the proof is here:

http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html