It's a question that everyone has asked themselves, whether at home and bored or facing a problem, like your car breaking down or not having enough money. To me the question is irrelevant, what is more important is that which underlies the question of "What should I do". That which underlies this question is in my opinion the mind attempting to rationalise outcomes and consequences of certain actions. For instance, if someone is short of money, in their own mind they might ask themselves "Perhaps I should steal a car and sell it, or maybe sell drugs" and then they would answer themselves by saying "Well, that would make me money but it might also land me in prison." It's just an example, but my point is that any question that one poses to oneself is asked in order to attempt to divine the best possible path to take regarding a certain venture. If someone wanted to go on holidays for instance, they would find a place in the world to travel to where they could have the most fun, or be at their most relaxed, or perhaps catch up with family or friends. Regardless of the decision that one makes, the outcome will most likely not be as expected to a certain extent. It's often the case that the picture we create in our minds of our ultimate fantasy or rather the best thing that could happen to us in "x" situation, the reality is quite warped. This begs the question, is reality warped, or is it the mind of the individual that is warped? For me the answer to this is in one of my previous posts, "Love life so that you can love death". I have a quotation here which for me sums up the way I feel about this topic:
“I dare to desire death, and to desire it more than anything”
“I envy the dead, and with them alone would I exchange my lot. Every
pleasurable fancy, every thought of the future that comes to me in
my solitude, and with which I pass away the time, is allied with
the thought of death from which it is inseparable.”
“If, on the one hand, I were offered the fortune and fame of Alexander or Caesar,
free from the least stain and, in the other hand, death today, I would unesitatingly
chose to die today.”
More food for thought... Ciao.
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