Those who think least about life are happiest with life, and those who think least about themselves are most satisfied with themselves. This statement about humans sounds extremely suspect, in that it is their ability to think about life and themselves that makes them the singular creature they are, and yet, at the most fundamental level of existence – it be so.
Additional verbal precision would dictate that this story should have begun: At the most basic level; those who think least about life are happiest with life, and those who think least about themselves are most satisfied with themselves. Indeed, if we were speaking of the general, civilized level of humanity today, the statement would not be accurate. To lead an ordinary social, technological, cultural and professional existence requires that a person think constantly about both the life going on outside of them, and the one going on inside of them in the brain’s consciousness, which they take to be them thinking about themselves. Without a person be so involved to the necessary degree, they cannot maintain a stable position in the overall, everyday flow of human existence.
As is always there is no problem in this, not that any human knows, or can know about. The situation is of interest to the few, vis a vis the eternal question of aim. What is it that you want…to be ordinary, an acceptable piece of the routine human puzzle picture? Even perhaps to therein excel? If so, then there certainly is nothing wrong with thinking about life and yourself. Indeed, if your goals lie in the everyday world, the more you so think, the better. But doing so instinctively conflicts with not only the most fundamental, physical, homo-sapien pleasures, but also with attempts to see through the mentally conceived and super-imposed, secondary-reality of culture and of a self somehow residing in consciousness.
The two very normal human sensations, which so irritate the sensitive eyes/I’s of the few: if you want to get-ahead, or even just get-along in the ordinary world, you must constantly think about life and about yourself. If your goal is otherwise, then so too must be your actions. To become a sculptor you employ methods different from those to become a mechanic, (even a moron understands that, right?!?)
J.