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The\u00a0scars in our culture<\/em><\/span>\u00a0will never let you get away from the imagined slip between the cup and the lip in this case. Present day bookkeeping(at least the one that most of us seem to practice) seems to have only debit, deficiency and gaps.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is our modern curse: A century of\u00a0conspicuous consumption<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0has trained us to be dutiful citizens of the\u00a0Republic of Not Enough<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, swearing allegiance to the\u00a0marketable myth of scarcity<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, hoarding toilet paper for the apocalypse. Along the way, we have unlearned<\/em><\/span> how to live wide-eyed with wonder at what\u00a0Hermann Hesse<\/strong>\u00a0called\u00a0\u201cthe little joys<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0\u2014 those unpurchasable, unstorable emblems of aliveness that abound the moment we look up from our\u00a0ledger of lack<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What are you chasing? Or what is chasing you? Counting on life or making life count?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The\u00a0democracy of inadequacy<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0is NOT of the people, by the people, for the people<\/em>. We all need a different domicile.<\/p>\n It’s time\u00a0to script your own countercultural invitation to rediscover life\u2019s true priorities amid our confused maelstrom of materialism and compulsive productivity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cEnough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits<\/em><\/span>,\u201d\u00a0Emily Dickinson<\/strong>\u00a0lamented in\u00a0a love letter. In his\u00a0splendid short poem about the secret of happiness,\u00a0Kurt Vonnegut<\/strong>\u00a0exposed the\u00a0taproot of our modern suffering as the gnawing sense that what we have is not enough, that what we are is not enough<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You, you-er, you-est<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>is the perennial journey you will embark on and the ticket for that ride will be your investment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This\u00a0civilisational trance<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and the\u00a0unabashed quest for more<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0needs a wake up call and the time is\u00a0now<\/strong>. Enough said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not until something challenges you to rise up, you shall always stay down; not until you realize your enough is enough, you shall always have enough. The\u00a0scars in our culture\u00a0will never let you get away from the imagined slip between the cup and the lip in this case. Present day bookkeeping(at least the … Continue reading “Why Is Enough NOT Enough?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[910,1814,49,1805,497,1807,1809,1804,7,1812,1815,1811,1810,906,1813,1109,676,1808,1806,43,1816],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aliveness","tag-bookkeeping","tag-brandknew","tag-conspicuous-consumption","tag-culture","tag-democracy-of-inadequacy","tag-emily-dickinson","tag-enough","tag-happiness","tag-hermann-hesse","tag-kurt-vonnegut","tag-lack","tag-ledger","tag-life","tag-little-joys","tag-poem","tag-productivity","tag-pursuit","tag-republic-of-not-enough","tag-scarcity","tag-script"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-Pursuit-of-Happiness.jpg\")
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