You may call me Moko Bi - the Musings of Moko Bi
Hi. You may call me Moko Bi. These are my musings.
Food, Shelter, Security and being Social. What have I missed? Clearly, -Sapiens Sapiens need to eat, need protection from nature, and sometimes from other double sapiens. There are probably arguments to be made for and against the need to being social. So beyond these essentials… how did LIFE get so complicated ?
When I take stock of my last 10 years - I do have some regrets. There are many things I haven’t figured out in my life.
I don’t have the formula to engage in a mutually meaning-ful and a content-ful way beyond a few folks at a time. I tend to keep to myself these days.
I don’t have the formula to live in the moment and enjoy the present for what it is… simply, the present.
There is a lot of life happening between blinks - Yes life really does happen in a blink - and you can easily get left behind or lost in it.
“Picture having a to-do list… and always anticipating fulfillment with the next tick of a checkbox, but you simply keep moving on to anticipating the next tick on the next checkbox, all the while still void of that elusive fulfillment with each check of a box. It’s like you are chasing life, but life doesn’t stand still to be caught - Yes, very much like chasing the wind. 🤨”
Perhaps its an artificial insecurity - always trying to prepare for tomorrow, while missing out on today. But how do you de-program from preparing for tomorrow, when its a huge part of cultural programing ? - You spend a nice chunk of a lifetime on either ‘bettering your standing in life’ - through some form of education/skills acquisition (formal or otherwise) so you can gain more influence and command more resources - and as you improve your lot, you are actively engaged in ‘saving for a raining day’ -
So your whole mindset is always living for a tomorrow that is not here today - that may never come - that you may never live.
So… as I understand it - and I don’t claim any expert knowledge or make any pronouncements - So, after the last ice age, about… maybe… 12,000 years ago - why did we choose this model of life ? - the rat race model - Did we gradually arrive at today? - Was the transition of double sapiens being nomadic to stationary inevitable? - Did we make a deliberate choice to mold our everyday to look like what we presently have? - Is the so called rat race by design or by accident? - Does it still make sense? - Does it hold us hostage? - Could we change if we wanted to?
For years, like many people around the globe, I have found myself doing early morning commutes to and fro dense urban hubs, not to mention the thick traffic travels.
Food, Shelter, Security and being Social. What have I missed? Clearly, -Sapiens Sapiens need to eat, need protection from nature, and sometimes from other double sapiens. There are probably arguments to be made for and against the need to being social. So beyond these essentials… how did LIFE get so complicated ?
So for the present day me…
I find myself clamoring for a simple life. If you ask me what a simple life means - I would say, these days I fancy myself a pretend minimalist, desirous of cultivating a patch of land for a subsistence livelihood. A throw back of sorts - I guess like another cliche, the more things change the more they stay the same.
Now I don’t pretend to be a hardcore minimalist, I enjoy many of present day conveniences which inevitably come with some clutter, nevertheless I find myself gravitating towards a very domesticated life where I am using my head, heart and hands (yes cliches beget corny, but corny doesn’t equate untrue) to solve the problems that come with building a quasi subsistence living.
So... who am I? Well, like I have said previously… some say I am an introvert, and others say I am a germaphobe. Dכfaa thinks I am a broke Howard Hughes.
So…, who am I? Well it turns out I am an optimist - a person in a misguided pursuit of ‘perfection’ - which usually doesn’t end well. As more cliche goes, in my seeking perfection I am invariably robbed of being good. So my pursuits usually end in disappointments of not meeting my expectations.
I am seriously considering switching to team pessimism - on account of, if I temper my expectations, and not expecting much, then there can’t be any disappointments, but on the other hand I could be pleasantly surprised when things go unexpectedly positively.
So does this ironically mean pessimism leads to happiness while optimism brings heart break?
Well that’s a whole other muse! 🤓