Path of self discovery

Ok... so on ecology in our lives. What you do about it? You recycle your home waste? Or you try not to use lot of stuff, re-use anything you can? What are your choices to not drawn your-self in the sea of things: furniture, clothing, shoes, bags, plants, dishes, food, anything? Do you like it to be as clean and empty as it is in minimalism style or even as for ascetics: only you, backpack, toothbrush and bottle of water? Or are you more of the creative, chaotic person, who needs to have bunch of useless things around him/her, wake up and sleep not by regime or discipline but rather by impulse or mood - in waves and still be fine and ok. What is your prerogative: chaotic creative style or clean orderly style. Both of them has their own charm and limits... Or maybe you are someone in between and then get 'eclectic' or 'shallow' labels because of it? Okey... So, about me, myself and I :D again.. I like XIX century ending XXc beginning, why? Because this was sort a crossroad from something, what was old and slow and constant into something that was suddenly blooming, growing in never seen speed before... everything just exploded: industry, medicine, population, art, all. So, I guess, that defines me as someone, who likes to hold on to, what is oldish and go on with something, what's new. That time has writers such as J.Verne, I can't tell, how much I liked to read him in middle school, telephones were invented and many other machines. It's something in between posh and rich of ornamental design and clear, clean, certain strictness of geometry, shapes, humbleness. I love it. Maybe generation X makes me chose things in "between", neither old style nor digital one.. I don't know, it just works for me. I enjoy recycling and emptiness just as I love to bring nature home: leaves, plants, tree branches, shells - stuff, "I might need" for this and that and all :D and it's very appreciated and valued. But yeah, windows must be big and lots of light and lightness too.

Hygiene and cosmetics - similar topic, looking, smelling, touching, hearing - body sensations and body mind, if you can name it so. Why it is important, I can't tell but it's funny, how clean and pleasant environment and your own body makes all things just better, lighter, easier... like after sitting in some cellar and small, dark place, you go into empty, open area, where only fresh air, wind and open space is present.. Not no mention, if you can observe all of it from some spot in good hight. It cleans your soul, you finally can breath and feel alive, you can say, who you are and not sit still and analyse your past, on and on. It's this need for space and freshness, empty head, open heart... only body: bones, muscles and blood - only those are your life, You, everything, every piece working in perfect harmony. Jesus, how I love this :D so yeah, mainly, hygiene and cosmetics are important... oh right, and some dirt and not being ONLY careful works as well... you know, potato needs fertilisers :) our body needs to fight something to stay awake and ready, also our body parts die every second, every second so many die in general and then.. so many are born, really, I wonder, if bonobos would have developed those brains that we posses now, would they populate whole planet just like we did? And yet again, if we fly into open space already, how long until immortality invention? And where all of us will fit... ? And then again, to have a child that is raised peacefully and with awareness can just make it work, not because "everybody does it", everybody does just the same nature programmed them to: fulfilling instincts and then die; but we can do more, I do believe, as we are nature and it always wins, we do go right way, way of the nature. 

Ok, so next topic, that I truly simply pull out of nowhere​, seemingly is aboooout... :D socialising and pets, shell we?
I talked about being alone and self-sustained because it's seriously interesting topic and needed skill entering adult's life (doesn't matter, you enter it at your 16 or your 56, it's never too late, and we all remain childish no matter what, unless we become healed 100% like Buddha or smthing), so... Yes, self-sustainability is a thing (at least for me) and then there is that part in us, who needs socialising and needs it highly. Not to mention, in a hierarchy of needs there is this section of social-belonging needs. We all are animals, never gone far from it, main brain capacity is still wired to surviving and motoric, really not to prefrontal part responsible for our conscious thoughts and being... That's little part, main part is about body and unconscious, and as an animals we are very social creatures, not to mention that this need is about surviving too: group is more effective in hunting and all than one individual. It's often said that introverts are quite new, just as eating meat or cook food is relatively new part of life of humanity, I am not sure about it (introvertive features) myself but I am sure, we developed not only cooking but morality to sort our lives and better surviving of the species. Morality isn't something pulled out of nowhere too, primary it helped to control and develop most preferred behaviour withing group, most effective behaviour. Anyone, who murders, rapes, assaults and steals isn't wrong in order to survive and have more offspring, it's just he (she?) usually ends up alone; or say, group where such a human would become a leader (because everyone would avoid and fear him), would be brutal and abusive, where creativity, peace, gathering and teaching-passing knowledge wouldn't be very much preferred or even existing... I mean, there isn't anything new, if you rob, murder, assault others in such group, unless you do even harder and!, even in this situation, you would be more effective in group than alone. Shortly put groups with brutal and destructive behaviour is hard to create and even harder to maintain, they aren't long living and stable. So, in this way common today's morals are those, where we mostly avoid murder, rape, assault, theft and embrace peacefulness, cooperation, creativity, flexibility; these principles slowly created more successful, prosperous and greater groups and civilisations afterwards. Well, something like that, I'm not historian and this small description is about socialising and importance of it; we created unimaginable things because needed one another to get better and learn and so on.
So... shortly: don't forget your family or loved ones, friends, co-workers, everyday strangers - cashiers, drivers, electrics, postmen, waitresses, just people in a bus stop. One random smile can change your day, one accidentally met stranger - your life. Take conflicts for a challenges to learn solve problems, enemies for guidance to most important things, when we lose our ways; there is no body, who falls out, everything is simply connected in ways, it's impossible to fall out. So :) lets enjoy our days and, I hope, 2022 Easter amused and cheered everyone up :)

Aha, on pets :D well.... everyone that we sort a "save", funny enough, usually saves us more. There is a great idea in there telling that only losing self with another one gets you to find yourself, paradoxically (is it from Depeche Mode song?).
Also, speaking about pets, lot of people can learn for parenting simply by having some pets and watching self, how you do with them, you like it? Can you be ok with them and care enough, do they have everything? Do you spend some time with them, do you understand do's and don'ts? Can you say they are ok with you and are appreciating you, even if in quite ambiguous ways :)? Are you ok with your daily life and travelling and not getting too busy because of them, you find free time and connecting with people as well? So on. If you are ok with your pets and still having quite fine life, you might be ok with kids too. Again... not to mention that it's good exercise to learn empathy to kids too - to care about a pet, to understand needs and emotional state of another one, of course, at proper age for it. 
Some people, who were abused and abandoned by their family of origin in quite sever ways prefer to bond with animals more than people. Might be also just an outcome of copying behaviour of their guardians in early childhood.
​Let them stay happy, those paws and all :)

So... last entry was on mental stretching and having somewhat wider world view and bigger picture in tact. This one will be on physical part: exercising, moving, doing.
Anything: walking, running, swimming, yoga, jogging, climbing, boxing, lifting... What you do, what is your favourite? Do you do it separately or just combine in your daily activities, like - walking your dog longer, maybe your work requires run or walk, constant moving? Is it your profession: sports or you just go to swim in local water place doesn't matter it's cold or warm outside? What best results you hit yet? What is it you want to achieve? Myself I just love to move, if I don't move, it seems like I'm dying, brain doesn't get enough of oxygen, no endorphins, mood get's waaaay to low. Do you over-work, over-exercise often? How many lazy days you have in a week? All this is sooo exciting :D
I love swimming BTW, what is you fav sports? Someone uses smart bracelets? 
Maybe you play competitive sports: football, baseball, rugby. Martial arts? On martial arts I think it's important tool for self competence in a manner not to fight but knowing that you actually can do it: fight, it means your tension in bit, say, awkward situations might be lower or not existing. BTW, just a thought, but some guys are really good in verbalise them-selves out of trouble, that's good protection as well. Team sports also bring some communication in the place, which is always healthy day exercise as well + in warmer season it might bring you out into the sun - important too. 

And shortly on diet: I am not exactly sure about younger people, since I ate drunk and used all sorts of sh***t, so is it interesting to them, I am not sure. Still.. the younger you start to build up your biological system we call body, the longer and happier it will last. Again, in dieting I never met anyone, who has it sorted completely, diets that people I met used: vegan, vegetarian, keto, Mediterranean, fasting, intermediate fasting, raw food, fruitarian, raw vegan, water diet-detox days in intervals, tea diet-detox in intervals, gluten-free diet and I guess, that is it. Usually people, who are more aware and conscious about, what they eat and how much, are counting calories a bit, eating less fatty and sugary food and trying to exercise. There are many indicators on, what is ok and not so much on the products labels as well: red, yellow, green colouring of fat, sugar, salt in the product can tell you, what to pick best, especially knowing this limit for kcal/day for adult - 2500. For some hours for eating doesn't matter, for others eating in the evening is slow torture sentence in fast evolving obesity. Some mix stuff: eating some particular diet, not exceeding particular number of kcal/day, doing some fasting too. I think like in exercising here is anything adjusted to a person. Never mind that, if too strict, you can end up losing your healthy style constantly because natural ways of our psyche needs freedom and constant restriction that can't vary and have days off seems like a prison, I wouldn't suggest that. 
And few words on addictive substances like nicotine, alcohol, caffeine. Not long ago even doctors claimed that nicotine is healthy in small amounts (well not so long ago Sun was turning around Earth, so no surprises), so now it's still believed alcohol and especially caffeine is healthy in considerate portions too... Again, I'm not telling to be perfect but if you use something, never judge anyone self medicating on heroin, since the point is the same everywhere: if you can't calm down and stay uplifted without your "small sins", the other person can't too... although judging in general is hard thing to handle. Stay healthy, stay clean and let your energy brighten your and your friend's day. Whoop whoop!!! fella or a gal, whoop whoop :P

Reading, ok, let's do reading and exercises, since I can't understand any mental stretching without some boxing bag or good swimming... It doesn't go this way, you need to move in order to rest up your brains and you need to exercise your brain to let your body to levitate in it's own galaxy or something...
Reading, again, myself I prefer paper books, it's so  much easier to separate them + I simply like to detach from pc, phone and anything, to have a cuppa with some green (decaf) tea or coffee (decaf, you guest right) and.... just disconnect from fast, racing, competing, eating itself up world... with wars, epidemics, protests, masks, prices, noises, mess... all of it. That is best for me, but anyway, other people prefer another stuff: audio books is the thing, you can also get into group book readings, so on. You can write books :) and also there is an internet... This wonder of the world needs another    to write about it.
So... Internet and streaming created this way of people without writing and reading simply streaming their knowledge and also following to get some kind of knowledge. I know, classical, academical approach dismantles and belittles this way of sharing: giving-receiving knowledge, since it's messy, random, filled with actual bull***t and not many can disagree with those arguments... as they cant disagree that mostly new, fresh and intact information really is concentrated in internet, not in books or newspapers. It's just so much faster that other ways of info streaming... that technically it's just impossible to get faster that this. So to belittle importance of internet is completely wrong choice. So... I would like to mention podcasts and conferences, films and all you can find in this reality of internet which is actually not very real, it's virtual, yet, it creates actual reality so so strongly... already. 

And then home-schooling. what it is and why you need to know it :D home-schooling was one of the best options to escape from world's madness, when Covid just hit and it always is a most preferable option for escaping mad education system that we have. Yes, there are better schools, alternatives places, where teachers and their students are choosing objects to learn by voting and never need to ask permission for visit toilets and never need to sit for hours in one place while being a children filled with high levels of energy... Where teachers and students are in one level, not a in higher-lower hierarchy. And then those places are few and very fresh and usually expensive or not stable enough to trust it for longer time. So.... home-schooling is where parents (or other guardians - grandparents, step-parents, so on) can do their best to avoid pushing their children through the mince grater to made them into "another brick in the wall".  It needs some preparation, some bravery but most of all it needs people, who prepared for parenting and have some excess time to spend it in quality way with their children, in playing, in resting, in learning and in other activities. That is most required - having recourses: a giant wish for your child to get the best out of learning and saved spare time to actually do learning together. And that's it basically. 
If you don't believe me, try to re-educate your own self without attending academy world. There are plenty famous, successful people, who never went there following their diplomas but rather following their life mission, not the carer but a call (not graduated or ere drop-outs: Coco Chanel, George Orwell, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Claude Monet and more). What else?? dunno, maybe Billie Eilish example of being home-schooled in their childhood and so on. It's not about staying uneducated, it's about staying with your passion rather than with your paper.