Somewhat sunny
Yesterday I drove three hours in traffic. It was much more tiring than driving on an empty highway for six hours.
I don’t like traffic jams, whether they are in cars, trains, or department stores. I’m pretty impatient.
Business books and self-help books on the street make a great deal of emphasis on “awareness. But maybe people don’t really want to notice anything. I see many people who are absorbed in meditation, games, sports, drugs, and so on.
In the end, they all want to lose themselves. In fact, they may not want to be aware of anything, including themselves, and they may not want to be “conscious” of anything all the time.
It is ironic that happiness is the state of forgetting oneself, in other words, “Noriten ko me. The existence of the consciousness that makes us human makes it impossible for us to attain happiness forever.
The more one faces something and becomes aware of something, the “unhappier” one may be becoming rather than growing.
Traffic jams, thinking about all the extraneous things that don’t matter.
