Author: Andrea Grassi

Today a coworker told me that “I got no reason for thanking him” and to myself I thought: That’s strange, we can always find a good reason to say a heartful thanks.

And I was right in thanking him, because I had good reason, but it was easy to find one.
We should thank people more, because being able to deeply say “thank you” to someone is one of the most wonderful and beautiful things of this world.

You need a brand new car, an efficent razor, a big home with a big view out of the window.

You need a beautiful wife, a fast pc, you need a stable and fast internet connection, you need a good looking suit.

I was reading seneca today, and I realized I am still a small boy with a ton of things still to be learned.
One of the things was that we shouldn’t seek more, but desire less.

Everyone should read seneca.

Children don’t have the same thoughts as adults partly because they don’t have the same experience, but what also comes from that experience?

There is a world of prejudices, expectations, reality shift, that comes with it. While children act directly on the world, adults tend to evaluate it very fast and act accordingly.

I wonder which one is the best.

I watched the first Ghost In the Shell when it came out in italy the first time. I was young and although I liked the movie, I didn’t understood it well.

I remember that I was confused about it. As if it was overly complex, something far from my reach.

I watched the same movie, today, years after. And it was simpler.
Not because I knew the plot, but because some concepts were now part of my “vocabulary”.

Politics, the way the politics act and works are more clear now than then.

It wasn’t because it was too complex (although it is), I didn’t understood it because I didn’t have the vocabulary and the experience to gain something from the show.

The problem with going outside the common thinking is that people are resilient to change, they are accustomed to their life so much they expect it to be like that.

If you change the way you work, if you live on less money, people will continue to remind of what they think you need, and it’s common because for them this is the way we should live life. 

But for you something might be different. And that’s why we have consumism everywhere. It’s in our lives it’s in every person we know and it will stay there. 

We can’t change this, it’s too big for us to change it, but we can continue go our own way, living life on our smaller terms, less expensive, more present, and maybe in our travel to the destination someone will join us.