Plato claimed that attempting to live by fulfilling your desires for
material things was like running around trying to fill a leaky jar -
you'll never be satisfied or content. Aristotle, a more practical man
admitted that it was a smidgen easier to be happier if you were well
off but saw the life of desire as no more than the life of the beast
- that is, what animals do (he recommended the life of duty and the
life of reason).
If we've known about this for the last two and a half thousand years,
how on earth do we still keep getting it so very, very wrong?
Insert answer here < >.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 13/05/2008, at 3:32 PM, Moose wrote:
> One of my sons, who was, and is, overly attracted to material
> possessions, used tell me I could afford all sorts of things he
> thought
> we should have. I drove him crazy when I said, over and over, "The
> reason I could afford xxx, is that I don't." Needless to say, he has
> been one of the major financial drains on my retirement. In his case,
> following some of those truisms in his life decisions would have
> made a
> major improvement is his happiness and both of our financial
> situations.
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