Waste

People often judge another with the lament, “What a waste.” How do they know? Waste is a human invention. We have the waste construct in our heads, and I don’t feel that any psychic construct is totally invalid. It allows us to build intention, and informs us of when we are not on intention. The wasted life is the life unlived. Everything else is cause/effect. Waste = dissonance, static, inaction, speech, even intention, but can we tune in a radio by whining at it and complaining that someone told us it would fix itself but it isn’t? We whine at the world that we live in, because someone else is supposed to fix it. God, if we could all hear him, would be saying, “I gave you the remote.” We have the remote.

“Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor, best known for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy, AD 121-180)