On Quality of Life

I believe that one can ascertain quite a bit about a person’s quality of life when we consider the problems they face and their stupidity relative to other potential problems.

The resulting axoim being; The quality of your life is defined by the stupidity of your problems.

I use the word stupidity here on purpose, because for many of us, most of our problems are quite frivolous. ‘Oh, my phone charger broke!’, ‘I scraped my knee this morning’, ad nauseum.

Odds are, you are not suffering unbearable physical pain, or any degree of perpetual psychological psychosis - although some are convinced otherwise. Whatever it may be, take a good hard look at your problems, at view them as what they are. Important to you, sure. But to any degree cosmically significant? Laughable.

I don’t propose you to then reject your problems, no. Keep battling them, inventing new ones, battling those too. Considering the inevitable problem of mortality and the insignificance of this ‘buffer of time’ we have - it is helpful to frame things in this way to be grateful for our stupid problems, even if they are as serious as death.

A bit too Stoic, I know. But it is calming for times where we are anxious with hasty problem-solving.