Mortensens Blog

Well, its been a while since my last post. My illusions of this being a bit of a diary type setup is failing miserably then... I think instead it's becoming a one-sided pub conversation held after 4 pints of your favourite alcoholic drink... In other words, complaining about stuff and then setting the world straight.

My wife and I are lucky, we really are. We have two fantastic boys, lovely family close by, nice friends, we're both making a reasonably decent living (still) and we have a reasonably nice house, we have a couple of cars that are drivable and we have one or two gadgets and toys. You would think that would be enough, but somehow its not.

I can't really explain why it's not, but we both have a feeling of basically not being satisfied, which is odd. So what might be the reasons for this totally unreasonable feeling? Well, we see people around us in bigger houses, they appear to be doing better, they appear better organised and appear to have more time for the nice times in life.

This, I believe, is a major failing of modern life, this feeling of not being satisfied, and I think it stems from the pressure of consumerism gone a bit bonkers. When, for example, did it become a leisurely past time to go shopping, or shop on the internet?

I think it's time to simplify our lives, make them less busy with irrelevant and useless projects and past times. However, in order to do that we have some hurdles to overcome, which means more projects. Typical!

Alright, calling this post "The future" might have been a little over the top. Instead, "New years resolution" would probably have been better... So here it is; I will almost entirely stop spending time on non-beneficial projects and spend almost all of my valuable spare time on projects that matter to me, my family and friends and to the new lower standard of living we're all going to have to get used to. In other words, ask "do we/I really need that?" before purchasing, if something is not broken beyond repair, don't replace it, do my sons need 10 trillion toys that clutter up our small house?, do I?, do the job today, get more sleep, get healthier, become happier and so on. Oh! Always ask; am I spending my time the best possible way I can right now?... Now there's a question. Goodnight!