Being Good To People Is The Only

When You Go For A Walk, Take Seeds With You, Poppies, Rainbow Chard, Rocket. Plant Them Among The Weeds In Patches Of Wasteland. See What Happens.

If You Look At The Literature Of The 19th Century, You Get Things Like Kafka And Dostoevsky, Who Basically Write About Feeling Bored And Alienated. That's Because We Lost Contact With The Important Things In Life Like Work That You Enjoy, Or The Garden, Nature, Your Family And Friends.

Faffing Is Completely Harmless, Whereas Its Opposite - Dynamic, Purposeful Activity - Is Often Very Harmful. Faffers Do Not Tend To Kill People Or Make Them Work 12-hour Days Or Sell Them Shoddy Merchandise Or Lend Them Vast Sums Of Money That They Cannot Pay Back.

I've Given Up Email. Well, Almost. At The Weekend I Set Up One Of Those Auto-reply Messages, Informing My Correspondents That I Would No Longer Be Checking My Emails, And That Instead They Might Like To Call Or Write, As We Used To In The Olden Days.

In The West, We Have Become Addicted To Work. Americans Now Work The Longest Hours In The World. And The Result Is Not Health, Wealth And Wisdom, But Rather A Lot Of Anxiety, A Lot Of Ill Health And A Lot Of Debt.