Transcript
Hello, everyone. Welcome to another daily Jimm. Today is Tuesday, January 16th, 2024. Today I want to talk about how I think most of us don't actually want to live at peace, um, or to have a peaceful life or whatnot. Ok. So yesterday I talked about when we were fighting for peace when we're fighting for love. And today I was thinking about peace as I was driving on the highway and it was very cold and very windy and snow was flying and potentially there was ice on the road. It's very, quite slippery and I was going slow. Um, probably 30 or 40 MPH or 30. You know, I really trying to take my time and really paying attention, turn the radio off, maybe overkill, but just really didn't want to slip and slide into the ditch. I'd seen so many accidents today and the day before I didn't want to be one of those in the ditch. And so I kept going and just around the time, about 20 miles later, I turned around the corner, I got past Lake Michigan going towards Chicago. And I started to see the sun come out and then the road looked a little bit more clear and then I went a little bit further and then the road was very clear. Not too much snow on it and the sun was shining, the skies were blue. People were going a little bit faster and I could just feel the warmth of the sun coming in through the window and I could feel the, uh, just the excitement rising in me, the relief rising in me. I had been feeling so stressed trying to make sure that I was safe. Um, and then the, the energy that came up in me as I was moving past the storm, the excitement, the hope, the uh relaxation that came into my body. And I think.
I may not have felt that much if I hadn't been feeling the other, uh like I said, the other extreme of emotion before that. And so I think sometimes we think that we want to feel just at peace. I just want to be at ease. But then we can't enjoy the, the, the joy or the, the gratitude or the relief. Or frankly, let me say the coziness. I was very cold driving. I finally reached here to my friend's place, came inside the house was very warm. We had a very nice warm meal, sat by a warm fire. It was just so warm and cozy and relaxing and comforting that sometimes it doesn't feel that way if I hadn't been experiencing something else. And so when people tell me that they want to live kind of, they just want to be at peace. I really asked, do they just want to be at peace and only at peace? Do they not want to have excitement anymore? Do they not want to have joy anymore? Do they not want to have uh coziness anymore?
Because if we want to have those things, sometimes we only know those things in opposition to, the frustration or the annoyance or the, you know, the guy who cuts you off in traffic going very fast when it's snowing and windy and icy. It's like, why is this dude going in the snowy lane? They've passed two lanes of traffic. What? Ah, ok. Now it's so beautiful. I don't have to worry about that anymore.
So I think a lot of times when we.
We say that we really want this peace, we really want stability. We really want steadiness and just predictability. I question it. Do people actually want that or do, we think it's possible to get the joy and the excitement without the quote unquote negative emotions, the sadness, the anger and these things, the fear.
That's when people tell me they just want to be at peace. I'm like, so why did you just do this wild thing if you just want to be at peace? Why do you eat chocolate? Chocolate is stimulating? I mean, it has caffeine, it has sugar. Two of them I believe are stimulants, caffeine at least. Um If you want to just be at peace, why watch movies? Movies bring so much suspense and ups and downs and lefts and rights. If you just want to be at peace, why would you ever watch a movie? Why would you watch TV? Or why would you listen to music? Some of the songs I listen to on the way out here hit me really hard. They made me really grateful. Really sad. Really excited, really bewildered. Just a lot of admiration for the way that somebody strung words together. So why, why listen to music? Why eat food? If we really just want to be at peace, why would we even eat food? Why would we, why would we drink alcohol? Why would we drink water? Why would we do so many of the things that we do if all we want to do is be at peace because I don't think we actually just want to be at peace. I think we like peace sometimes or, or some type of relaxation or calm but not all the time.
So maybe some people are just saying we just want to be peaceful a little bit, a little bit more peaceful. It's totally fine, but only at peace. No. Come on. Life is the ups and the downs, the lefts and the rights all the ways around it. There's so much feeling, there's so much living to life that if we just want to be at peace. I think sometimes we miss out on that even though we still often try to get it. So I think, I think we actually don't want to just be at peace, but a lot of us think we only want to be at peace anyways. At that note, I would like to relax as I'm standing here in the basement floor is very cold. I want to go back into the very warm coziness. Um And yeah, but honestly, if my feet weren't so cold right now, then the warm bed wouldn't feel uh wouldn't feel as good. All right. Take care of y'all.
No replies yet