People often wonder why I have so few worries in life. People run around worrying about their health, their appearance, their job, their financial situations, their future... their death. Why do I hardly worry about these things? There is a simple answer.
I once heard the line "As soon as your born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time" in a song, and in that sentence alone is my whole answer and philosophy on life.
What scares people more then anything is the question "what happens after death?" Which I find really frustrating when they should be asking "what am I doing in this life?" People spend their whole lives concerned about what happens that they are prepared to forgo things in this life to assure themselves their going to get something greater in the next one. I find that a ridiculous concept by the simple fact that their not basing it off an hard evidence, just merely assuming and falling in with common belief.
One question they should ask themselves is that if 'God' (or which ever deity you believe in) created all of this beautiful world, why on earth would he then turn around and say "Now, if you wanna get in with me then don't do alot of the stuff that I created, no matter how much it may improve or even increase the enjoyment of your life."
Being an Atheist I don't pretend to know what lies beyond, but like anyone else I have my beliefs. I believe that it doesn't matter what you forgo or don't forgo, that when it comes to the big question, we're all just clutching at straws, there is no point in wondering, so we should just focus on our lives now.
Which brings me to the no worries stratagem I have employed for my life. Go with the flow.
As I say again, as soon as your born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time. Why spend what years we have worrying about ultimately usless shit? Here's my philosophy on things we worry about:
Work - Trust me when I say, you can find work anywhere. The problem is that we are biased about the jobs we take. If your desperate for work you can't pass over an immediate job as a janitor cause your holding out for a job that pays only a touch more but is much more satisfying work. You want work? Take it. As shit as it is, you'll get experience, which you can then use to get a better job. Everyone has to start somewhere.
Money - Easy to come by, hard to hold on to. Again, jobs, tasks, and many other opportunities are out there to get some money. And if all else fails there's always the illegal route you can take to scrounge up some cash.
Health - Strange that we worry about this even though we're all going to die. Seems about as smart as trying to stay dry in the ocean. Don't get me wrong, quality of life is worth a bit of worry, but seriously, extending your life? All that means is that your going to be in your final years for longer. If they find a way for me to extend the quality of life I have right now for a few more years, then I'm all for it, till then, it's a load of worry that you don't need.
Also attached to this is 'Unnecessary risks', what a crock that is! If you think about it, everything we do is an unnecessary risk. With the huge metal and jet fueled bombs we call planes flying overhead, everywhere around the globe, weapons of death and destruction that are now so easily attained and user-friendly that a 3 year old can use them, speeding machines of motion catapulting down streets outside damn near everywhere we go, even the earth itself has thousands of cruel and nasty diseases and disasters that can end our life in a second. And people are worried about a roller coaster, sky diving, and large crowds of people? Please do excuse me that with all of these options to an inevitable end, I'm not as worried about it as they are.
What precious time we have on this earth should be spent with friends, family and loved ones, not spent stuck in our heads worrying about what should've/would've/could've happened. One's life is measured not by how long we have survived, or how well, only by how much of life we have lived. My philosophy on life and death may not the way you see it, and I do not aim to try and change yours, I only want us all to spend what time we have together, despite whatever each of us believes comes next.
Cause after all, in this Modern Day, aren't we all just on a Slow Boat to Hades?
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