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I got this really cool edition of Walden for my birthday!

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What do you do when you lose motovation for writing halfway through a sentence?

When it happens to me I just tend to

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My book research continues!

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I want to postulate that this pyramid is missing the foundation, earth. I think the a major reason why people fail to find happiness despite all their needs being met is because we humans have too far removed ourselves from our connections to our planet in survival. We don’t cut down trees to build our shelter and we don’t grow our food and we don’t participate in nature as we were meant to. I am writing a book that speaks of this in greater detail. For today, I just wanna say, grow a pot of tomatoes in your window if you can. Pick an apple from a tree if you get the opportunity. Participate in your own survival in connection with earth and you might find a certain satisfaction from the effort..

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I’ve been making an effort to make healthier food choices. That only consists of less processed food at this point. I think part of rekindling my connection to earth needs to include eating foods that exist unaltered from the way earth gave them to me. More produce and whole grains and less kraft mac and cheese. I do love kraft mac and cheese and will definitely eat it again sometime. But oranges and walnuts are important too.

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Doesn’t anyone want to be a Paladin? I want to be a Paladin…

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These are the books I am planning to study in my postulancy. Please join me. We could have an informal book club.

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I believe it is time to begin my studies to become a Paladin of happiness. I will begin in the same way as other holy orders by studying the sacred texts. I already have preconceived ideas of what my studies will look like but it is a place to build on and not necessarily a means to an end.

As a postulant of the Order I plan to read Walden, The Miracle Of Mindfulness, and Tribes. Those books may lead to other books but I definitely want to begin with those three. I plan to keep a journal of my findings and hopefully complete my postulancy in the next couple of months.

From there I will move to Novice and attempt to put some of my learning into practice. A journal will be kept, more books will be read and this may last a year or more. It will last until I am ready to make more permanent commitments to my self proclaimed Order of Happy Paladins.

Last of is the Scholarship and Master level. Maybe I will never get there. I hope to try. I would really like if I could find some other people willing to make this journey with me. Feel free to send me a message if this idea interests you.

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Excluding things like trauma, hardship, and mental health issues, I think a lot of the reason that modern humanity suffers from unhappiness is because of two major reasons.

1. A lack of participation in our own survival and connection to earth.

2. The loss of a supportive tribe to see us through the hardship and trauma.

Most modern humans in our society hold down jobs and generate wages to pay for the supplies they need to survive. Some of us have never grown our own food and most wouldn’t know how to build their own shelter. We often buy premade foods and have no idea what is in them and if our shelter is cold we simply turn up the heat. I am in no way trying to say that modern technology is bad or that we shouldn’t shop at grocery stores. This isn’t about health either. What is about, is the fact that our modern lives have so much technology that we have removed ourselves from ever thinking about what we are truly doing, surviving. We have forgotten the source of our survival, the planet earth. The need to participate in cooperation with our planet for survival was something people in premodern times had to do out of necessity. Maybe we should consider working towards more awareness of our own.

It also seems like modern people don’t have the large extended families for support or religious institutions full of their friends and neighbors to help them. Many families settle into a community and don’t know any of the people there. If tradgedy strikes them, they have to make a GoFundMe page for help because there is no other option.

I think it’s time for this to change. Don’t you?