Basic Important Things

There are people you care too much about as if they are the world. But there is something we all have to obey, care and please -- the society, and the nature. It is these whom decide what we need to do if we decided to live.

Salt: it is funny how we overlook the importance of salt, and its source. Everyone knows, at least vaguely, how chickens or pigs are fed, but few know where the salt comes from. Many things are as necessary as salt. But we do not put enough effort understanding them.

The reason why we lack knowledge of important or basic things is that we are instilled about what are important and what are not, without reflection on the common believes.

In hot summer, it is important to keep chill and rest well -- keep hydrated and avoid staying outside too long. However, there are too many people having to be outside. This to me seems to be a curse. In hot environment, animals hide in shades or dark places. But human have to torture themselves by exposure to intense sunlight for ethical reasons. Ethics is more important to the nature of biological survival demand, they think.

In this post, I do not want to only talk about idea. I also advocate actions in order to help everyone care more about the important things, and as a result, less about the unimportant things. Attention is easily taken by unimportant thing and cannot be allocated to the important.

First, rest well. By resting I refer to real rest, not distractions. I rest everywhere, by taking a nap or simply closing my eyes. I do so because the unimportant things are easy to capture the mind and I need to reset from time to time. I do not seek distractions to not think about anything serious. Instead, I seek rests that makes me think serious about what really matters.

Second, in hot summer, prioritize taking shower. Shower is possible even when the AC is not accessible. It brings away the heat, cools you down and your life is immediately better.

Third, fuck around and find out, setting no limit. On the internet, we can express whatever we want. Most time no one really cares to intervene us, which is good. I find that a nature of human is that expressing drives thinking. This is important because by writing, speaking and exploring freely, one can achieve a better mental health, think deeper, sparkle the curiosity which can leads to success.

With these ideas, you can start practice redistribute the attention, weighting more on the important things. This process will be slow but the benefits will come along the way. I sincerely wish you can use your time on the really basic important things.