Check it out!.
Are you hungry for a hamburger?
Then this is what you want.
Thick juicy burgers smothered in cheese,
Crispy lettuce with a ripe red tomato sticking out.
You ready for it!
Okay, here it is.
This is reality.
A sorry peice of meat, stuck
between two stale peices of bun,
with vegetables that look
wilted and tired.
You think this is bad!
I bought my video ipod for
plenty of money. Only to see
the next version come out within
three months with twice as many gigabytes
for the same price.
In fact, they even have these nice
little pocket sized ones with
better graphics than this one.
I would love to have one of those.
Has that ever happen to you?
I bet it does all the time.
You get all excited about
the next great thing.
You can't wait.
The day comes. You get it!
And the next day the price drops,
the newer version comes out,
or the previous formats
do not work on the newer models.
That's just it!
Life is a cycle of wanting,
getting and wanting more.
Desire! Expectation! Disappointment!
And then you know what happens next?
YOU DIE!
Depressed already!
Life got you down!
Get over it.
TAKE SCHOPENHAUER AND
DON'T CALL ME IN THE MORNING.
Schopenhauer saw how easily we
get trapped in the motion of
want and illusion.
Strip away the want and illusion.
And what do you got?.
Let me quote Arthur
Schopenhauer himself,
"We can regard our life as
a useless disturbing
episode in the blissfull
repose of nothingness. "
The man was a real upper.
With an attitude like that,
it makes sense that
he would go on to say,
"We should always be
mindful of the fact that
no man is ever very
far from the state
in which he would readily
want to seize a sword
or poisen in order to bring
his own existense to an end. "
Well Okay, maybe not today.
To do so would be admitting
that I am a victim of
this pointless existense,
so described by Arther Schopenhauer.
Well he is known as 
the pessimistic philosopher
If you think of him 
just as a downer, 
then you miss the point. 
Schopenhauer is telling us 
not to be surprised
by misery or-expectations.
Be a knower and 
not a sufferer
As a knower I can detach myself
from my strong willed desires 
And once done, then I am less
likely to be fooled by their 
illusionary promises of happiness. 
I don't need the next big thing.
I am content with what I have.
I'll be back!
