Cats, a dog and thoughts on life

G'day,

Today my blog is abut our cats and about life itself. First up: Cats
Pixel and Willem scanning the front yard...
Pixel, overweight and beautiful
very beautiful cat
Willem in sniffing mode...
sniffing leaves...
handsome tom...
Willem is handsome...but a fleabag...well, now an ex-fleabag (hopefully)
and Gilbert...

Now for some other stuff...I have been contemplating...

There is a great variety of people and there is an even greater variety of models or strategies to live life. Some of these models seem quite strange to me, others are more appealing. I keep asking myself if there is a quality in value to them. I mean, if there is an objective quality in value to them, as I am sure as hell that there is a very distinct quality in value to the different strategies and models of how you live your life in my subjective view of the world.

Because if I’m totally honest, I wouldn’t like to be one of the guys who “choose” the model of life where you sleep on a bench in the park and drink/take other drugs of choice the whole day and steal/rob/burgle when you run out of money to get your fix. I’d rather live my life different. Well, I’m not altogether sure how exactly but I have pretty good ideas what it entails and what I need and what I want and what would be nice to have. I also have pretty good ideas what I really don’t want, what I don’t need and what I can’t have, which is already of a great help on finding my way in life.

So I guess every person has their own idea of how to live their life and they will think that it’s superior to other models because why else would they have chosen it? I mean they might find something to blame their choice on (alcohol, drugs, their parents, circumstances, voices in their heads or even destiny) but I firmly believe in free will and that there is always a choice. So everybody choose their model of life according to their priorities however ridiculous they might be to other people.

What I’m asking is if it is possible to apply an objective value to the way how you live your life or the model of life you choose. And I don’t mean that in the sense of the things you actually do, I hope everybody knows that there are certain wrong and right things to do or not to. I mean it in the sense of if the lifestyle punk-rocker is more valuable than the lifestyle of business man. I mean if it’s better to be a fulltime vegan hippy or a scientist. Rock star or day laborer, family guy or workaholic or a mixture of them all?

I don’t think there is a right or wrong, a good or bad or even a better or worse.

And because of that I should treat all different lifestyle models with the same respect.

But I don’t.

I choose a lifestyle model that includes the inability to take religious people seriously, the loathing of stupidity in all forms and the conviction that my opinion is often the right one just to name a few cornerstones of my particular model of life.

But does that make me right, good or even better than others? I don’t think so, even if I often wish it would.

Well, that's all for today...

Have fun, stay save and cya later