blog: happy meat sack

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+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
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+I went for coffee with a friend today.  We were talking about how to make sense of it all.  The big stuff.
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+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.
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+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.  
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+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".
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+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.
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+You can be a happy meat sack, or you can be a sad meat sack.