From 32135deed192775ee4a7c9113332035ce21c4827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 22:46:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] blog: happy meat sack --- src/content/blog/2023-04-20-happy-meat-sack.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/content/blog/2023-04-20-happy-meat-sack.md diff --git a/src/content/blog/2023-04-20-happy-meat-sack.md b/src/content/blog/2023-04-20-happy-meat-sack.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0e2812 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/blog/2023-04-20-happy-meat-sack.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: '"I''m just trying to be a happy meat sack"' +date: 2023-04-20T21:45:46.205Z +slug: 2023-04-20-happy-meat-sack +author: Thomas Wilson + +--- +I went for coffee with a friend today. We were talking about how to make sense of it all. The big stuff. + +We were talking about the things you should not burn: health, youth, relationships. Those things will, if sustained, sustain you. Or, more pessimistically, they are the things you will reassembling slowly if you discard them. + +Take the time and hone the tools to sustain them. It does not matter if they do not feel important on a Thursday lunchtime when the sun is out. + +We were talking about therapy being one such tool, and my friend stopped talking, laughed, and said "I'm just trying to be a happy meat sack". + +It's good. You're a biological machine that breaks down slowly (if you're lucky) over seventy-some years (if you're lucky) which will, if you're lucky, happen to your mechanical body before your neural one. You're also an exceptionally *wet* meat machine. We are wet, slowly failing degrading meat machines. + +You can be a happy meat sack, or you can be a sad meat sack. \ No newline at end of file