52. Emptiness is not empty

"And the day, however empty and insubstantial it may seem, is in fact filled - not with emptiness, but with evil and idleness, which give birth to lies and crime." https://youtu.be/Le4gt-Uhs0Q?t=1444

"I want continuous action and continuous activity. ... Weakness of the body and fatigue must not be an obstacle, as they must be overcome by movement and change of action, but idleness is not justified by anything." https://youtu.be/Le4gt-Uhs0Q?t=1640

51. Life - a stream of tasks

Viktor Frankl simply and precisely described the deep psychological need of a person for Meaning. Without Meaning a person suffers doubly.

Logotherapy - treatment with meaning. "In everyday practice, the task of logotherapy is to help the patient find and realize the little 'meaning of the moment', the meaning of what is happening to him here and now."

Awareness that life consists of a continuous stream of tasks helps to find meaning.

49. LaborGit v.3.2.2 (desktop client)

The new version improves the database comparison and merge service (Merge).

If earlier only Steps (Steps) could be compared, now the comparison of Tasks (Tasks) and Life Spheres (TypeLifes) is added.

After comparison, full two-way synchronization is possible.

It is very convenient to use in the mode: quick recording of activities in the mobile app when there is no access to the computer, and subsequent synchronization with the main database in the desktop app.

http://laborgit.ru/download

2022-12-04

50. Faithfulness

Faith and Faithfulness are the same thing.

Everything is hierarchical.

One wife. One work.

Dog-like devotion.

The Wild Division did not abandon the Tsar.

Loyalty to a friend. Russians don't leave their own. Chechens stay to the end.

Celentano and Papanov

Loyalty to convictions? He wavered with the party line.

Believe blindly. Jumped into the river with crocodiles.

Blindly - is it stupid? Depends on who leads.

If you found your Woman, then close your eyes and hold on to her with all your might.

48. Equality

If God is one, and He is One, then all people are equal to Him.

Hence any nationalism, even the supposedly "healthy" nationalism of D.E. Galkovsky, is a deeply flawed phenomenon. In the case of Dmitry Yevgenyevich, with his rare mind and talent - the phenomenon is doubly offensive and ugly. Apparently, the famous Pelevin device "Nature rhymes exquisitely" worked.

46. Beloved work

Beloved work is great happiness, possibly the only one that is maximally accessible from the whole set one dreams about in childhood. Well, also a dog, of course, and grandchildren, if you're lucky, and even then only while they're small.

The beloved will betray or get boring, and you'll betray, God forbid. Children will grow up and forget. The usual thing - you are left alone. Sadness? No, autumn.

47. Life in comfort

The usual arc of growing up starts with the phase "The world is huge and magical. Hurry up and become an adult", then passes through the ontological horror "Life is meaningless. Why all this?" and settles on the wise "Live to live... preferably in comfort".

44. Lose and keep building.

With age comes the desire to build something. I don't know about women, for men for sure. People are different, of course, and find themselves in different circumstances, but the need to build and make a nest is wired in biologically. Step by step, brick by brick, enjoying yourself in between. Not ashamed in front of yourself and your woman. If you did nothing in a day, you feel bad in the evening.

45. Rest. Public bathhouse.

You are in luck if you know how to enjoy a bathhouse.

It often happens that the first trip to the bathhouse turns out to be the last.

For example, as young men we went with the guys to steam off. We started showing off who could outlast whom. I got overheated, burned myself, understood nothing, and for the next 30 years you walk past the bathhouse a kilometer away.

42. Duty

Mindfulness is 3 simple questions that you must answer to yourself at any minute:

  1. who am I?

  2. what am I doing right now?

  3. why (for what) am I doing it?

If you have a Big Goal - consider yourself awakened. Such a beacon won't let you get lost in desires. "Sail toward the sound of the surf".

If there's no Goal, then think about the word Duty. Most often it's the same thing. Where there's Duty, there's the Goal.