While you can’t buy more time, you can rent, lease, or give less of it away. The less you surrender, the more you have to enjoy. It’s kinda like that old fable about the ant and the grasshopper. If you are facing a winter of debt, you may want to start acting more like the ant. While it’s sexier to live like the grasshopper in summer, the ant has it made in the shade the minute the weather turns.
I find that the more I let go of alcohol and marijuana addiction, the greater the gravity I feel pulling me forward. I feel less anchored in the past or badgered by The Judge.
This led my to a consideration of card games as a proxy for predetermination. If we consider that the act of shuffling the cards randomizes their order and therefore determines how those cards are dealt and/or later drawn, there is little doubt that shuffling ultimately influences the outcome of the game.
Purveyors of Ponzi Schemes and other scams rely on FOMO to reel in the constant flow of new investors. These new investors don’t want to miss out. We see FOMO manifest in markets of all kinds. From stocks to commodities to real estate, misled investors chase illusory gains.
Happy Sober Thanksgiving! My first sober Thanksgiving since (well, truthfully I can’t say when) brings with it much to be grateful for.