I’m going to say something here that is not popular and may be controversial: convenience has no inherent virtue.
The value of convenience is the time/effort/attention it saves us that we can devote to something else more meaningful.
Yet sometimes it seems we’ve fetishised convenience so that it has become an unquestionable end in its own right.
There are three main problems with this that impact on happiness. Continue reading “The cult of convenience”
Whenever I go home to Florida, I make sure to watch at least one sunrise on the beach. It’s a natural balm to an itchy nervous system.
It also acts as a felt metaphor, with the impact absorbed first while the brain catches up with the words a moment later.
It’s paradoxical, because the sun rises every day – one of a countless many – and yet, each one is subtly different and irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind. Like a human life. Or a moment in time. Continue reading “Lessons from the sun”
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