How do you balance contentment and ambition?
Are you a restless soul, or more Zen?
How to square being “in the moment” with a taking aim at the “next big thing” is quite the conundrum.
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Epictetus.
Hmmmmm… yes and no.
We see the world through a singular, unique, lens
comprising a million little pieces*.
(*James Frey, remember him?)
It might be argued many of my vintage have been too relentless in their pursuit of goals,
and the young professionals today too relentless in their pursuit of pleasure.
The Stoics and the Epicureans, if you like;
self actualisation comes in many guises.
How do you balance it all?
I’ve always been thought more ambitious than I am, but then l would say that, wouldn’t l?
Pic: me in 1977, wanting to be Kenny Dalgleish.
Before KD l wanted to be Donny Osmond,
then Marie Osmond,
then Lawrence Mears,
then a priest,
then Ziggy Stardust.
