Been watching a DVD tribute to John Lennon. Watching all the old footage of the concerts and the fashions etc really made me surprisingly homesick for ‘the old days.
Quite sad really… time has flown on and like a lot of ‘older people’ I recall the days of my youth with some affection and regret for things not done. I think I’m hitting shades of Maslow’s ‘hierarchy of needs’ and the self actualisation factor is causing me some questions.
I’ve always maintained that under most circumstances, if not all, there is nothing any of us should be ashamed of in the way we live our lives. All of us are the sum of our interaction with others combined with our inherited characteristics. Essentially this is a guilt mitigating strategy in that it tries to absolve you of any blame in the wya your life has developed.
Of course, looked at from the most positive perspective it means that whatever the end result of our lives may be, it means we arrived there having done the best we could with the choices we were presented through our lives.
Now whilst this is really useful absolution strategy (and I feel 100% accurate representation of the facts as we know them) this does rather open the door to being used as an excuse for all sorts of excesses that in the extreme case it validates a a total breakdown in law and order… so has its limitations 🙂
Trouble is I don’t have a full explanation of just *why* we shouldn’t run around causinf mahyem and living a life of excess and debauchery…
… and there I stop. Don’t ask me how I got onto this topic ‘cos I have no idea. Maybe the depression got to me again 🙂
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